Phytoplankton dynamics shape bacterioplankton community structure and metabolism during the austral summer-autumn transition in the Western Antarctic Peninsula
Mariia Pavlovska, Yevheniia Prekrasna-Kviatkovska, Andrii Zotov, Artem Dzhulai, Evgen Dykyi, Bruno Huettel, Bernhard M Fuchs, Rudolf I Amann, Hanno Teeling, Chandni Sidhu, Alexandre Anesio · 2026
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Mariia Pavlovska and co-authors track ocean microbes as Antarctic summer fades in this 2026 paper. Off the Western Antarctic Peninsula, plant plankton shifts with the seasons. The team paired gene reading with activity reading in the bacteria that live off the plants' output. Diatoms led the plant side, though in modest numbers.
The bacterial crowd changed character as food thinned. Fast-growing types gave way to lean lineages built for scarcity, and sugar-breaking activity fell. Skill at digesting each algal sugar varied by species. Sulfur handling shifted with ice melt, sunlight, and the plant succession. The study ties the two communities into one coupled system driving carbon and sulfur flow.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mariia Pavlovska, Yevheniia Prekrasna-Kviatkovska, Andrii Zotov, Artem Dzhulai, Evgen Dykyi, Bruno Huettel, Bernhard M Fuchs, Rudolf I Amann, Hanno Teeling, Chandni Sidhu, Alexandre Anesio |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 58 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |