Bacterial plankton study of the shallow inlets of Possiet Bay (Sea of Japan)
Vyshkvartsev, D.I.
Mikrobiologiia 48(4): 745-751
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-3656 PMID: 481289 Document Number: 146671
A summer-autumn maximum and a winter maximum are typical of the seasonal bacterioplanktonic developmental cycle. The minimal concentration of bacteria (biomass, 16--26 mcgC/l; production, 5 mcgC/l . day) is observed in early winter. As the water gets warmer by July, this concentration reaches its maximum (biomass, 70--75 mcgC/l; production, 70--85 mcgC/l . day). The activity of microflora in half-open bays is similar to that of the open bay the Road of Pallas. The high level of bacterial activity is evidently supported by dissolved organic matter transferred from the detrital pool of eelgrass.