Nitrogen fixation by periphyton and plankton on the Amazon floodplain at Lake Calado |
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Authors: | Robert D Doyle Thomas R Fisher |
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Institution: | (1) University of Maryland, Horn Point Environmental Laboratory, Cambridge, Maryland 21613, USA;(2) Present address: US Army Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Lewisville Aquatic Ecosystem Research Facility, RR#3 Box 446, Lewisville, TX 75056-9720, USA |
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Abstract: | Nitrogen fixation by periphyton and plankton was measured on the Amazon flood-plain using the acetylene reduction method calibrated with15N-N2. The average ratio (± SD) of moles C2H4 reduced per mole N2-N fixed was 3.4 ± 0.7, similar to other studies. Periphyton and plankton had high rates of light-dependent nitrogen fixation, with dark nitrogen fixation averaging 26% of the average rates in the light. The average daily (24 h) rates for periphyton nitrogen fixation in 1989 and 1990 were 1.79 and 0.51 mmol N2-N·m–2·d–1 respectively, which are comparable to summer rates in many temperate cyanobacterial assemblages. Nitrogen fixation was depressed at N03
– concentrations as low as 0.5 M, and was below detection limits at concentrations of 4 M, which occurred during periods of river flooding. Planktonic nitrogen fixation rates were high (0.5–0.8 mmol N2-N·m–2·d–1) during the high-water and drainage phases of the annual hydrograph when the floodplain waters were draining towards the river (low NO3
–), but rates were undetectable (< 0.05 mmol N2-N·m–2·d–1) when there was river flooding (high NO3
–). Nitrogen fixation by periphyton and plankton in 1989–1990 accounted for approximately 8% of previously reported total annual nitrogen inputs to the floodplain at Lake Calado. |
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Keywords: | Amazon floodplain floating meadows nitrogen fixation periphyton plankton tropical limnology |
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