Rates of bacterial sulfate reduction and their response to experimental temperature changes in coastal sediments of Qi’ao Island, Zhujiang River Estuary in China

WU Zijun; ZHOU Huaiyang; PENG Xiaotong; LI Jiangtao; CHEN Guangqian

doi:10.1007/s13131-014-0458-x

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WU Zijun, ZHOU Huaiyang, PENG Xiaotong, LI Jiangtao, CHEN Guangqian. Rates of bacterial sulfate reduction and their response to experimental temperature changes in coastal sediments of Qi’ao Island, Zhujiang River Estuary in China[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(8): 10-17. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0458-x

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WU Zijun, ZHOU Huaiyang, PENG Xiaotong, LI Jiangtao, CHEN Guangqian. Rates of bacterial sulfate reduction and their response to experimental temperature changes in coastal sediments of Qi’ao Island, Zhujiang River Estuary in China[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(8): 10-17. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0458-x

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WU Zijun, ZHOU Huaiyang, PENG Xiaotong, LI Jiangtao, CHEN Guangqian. Rates of bacterial sulfate reduction and their response to experimental temperature changes in coastal sediments of Qi’ao Island, Zhujiang River Estuary in China[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(8): 10-17. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0458-x

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Rates of bacterial sulfate reduction and their response to experimental temperature changes in coastal sediments of Qi’ao Island, Zhujiang River Estuary in China

doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0458-x

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State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China

Received Date: 2012-08-24
Rev Recd Date: 2013-05-27

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Subtropical sediment cores (QA09-1 and QA12-9) from the coastal zone of Qi'ao Island in the Zhujiang River Estuary were used to determine the rates of sulfate reduction and their response to experimental temperature changes. The depth distribution of the sulfate reduction rates was measured from whole-core incubations with radioactive tracer ³⁵SO₄^2-, and peaks of 181.19 nmol/(cm³·d) and 107.49 nmol/(cm³·d) were exhibited at stations QA09-1 and QA12-9, respectively. The profiles of the pore water methane and sulfate concentrations demonstrated that anaerobic oxidation of methane occurred in the study area, which resulted in an increase in the sulfate reduction rate at the base of the sulfate-reducing zone. Meanwhile, the sulfate concentration was not a major limiting factor for controlling the rates of sulfate reduction. In addition, the incubation of the sediment slurries in a block with a temperature gradient showed that the optimum temperature for the sulfate reduction reaction was 36℃. The Arrhenius plot was linear from the lowest temperature to the optimum temperature, and the activation energy was at the lower end of the range of previously reported values. The results suggested that the ambient temperature regime of marine environments probably selected for the microbial population with the best-suited physiology for the respective environment.
- sulfate reduction rate,
- temperature-gradient incubations,
- ³⁵SO₄^2-tracer,
- Qi’ao Island

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