Contribution and pathways of diazotroph-derived nitrogen to zooplankton  during the VAHINE mesocosm experiment in the oligotrophic New Caledonia  lagoon

Hunt, Brian P. V.; Bonnet, Sophie; Berthelot, Hugo; Conroy, Brandon J.; Foster, Rachel A.; Pagano, Marc

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3131-2016

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31 May 2016

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| 31 May 2016

Contribution and pathways of diazotroph-derived nitrogen to zooplankton during the VAHINE mesocosm experiment in the oligotrophic New Caledonia lagoon

Brian P. V. Hunt, Sophie Bonnet, Hugo Berthelot, Brandon J. Conroy, Rachel A. Foster, and Marc Pagano

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RC1: 'Review of the manuscript Biogeosciences Discuss., bg-2015-614', Anonymous Referee #1, 18 Feb 2016
- AC1: 'Response to Referee 1', Brian Hunt, 19 Apr 2016
RC2: 'Referee Comment for bg-2015-614', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Feb 2016
- AC2: 'Response to Referee 2', Brian Hunt, 19 Apr 2016

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (19 Apr 2016) by Emilio Marañón

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ED: Publish as is (03 May 2016) by Emilio Marañón

Short summary

Biological nitrogen (N) fixation is an important source of N for food webs in tropical and subtropical oceans. However, uptake pathways remain poorly understood. This study found that fixed N contributed a third of total zooplankton N in the New Caledonia lagoon. Fixed N reached the zooplankton through 1) direct grazing on N fixers and 2) grazing on phytoplankton that had taken up N released by fixers. We report the first record of direct zooplankton grazing on the unicellular N fixer UCYN-C.