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Model of bacterial growth influenced by substrate C:N ratio and concentration

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Touratier, F, Legendre, L, Vézina, A·1999·Aquatic Microbial Ecology

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The present study describes and explores a model to determine bacterial growth, respiration and net ammonium remineralization as a function of the average substrate C:N ratios and concentrations of organic substrates.Several experimental data sets were used to estimate critical parameters of the model.These data sets suggest that carbon and nitrogen growth efficiencies play a central role in the computation of bacterial growth, respiration, and net ammonium remineralization.The new parameterization of these processes, which takes into account the variability of carbon and nitrogen growth efficiencies with the C:N ratio of organic substrates, agrees with the observed expermental trends.The structure of the model and the results are compared to those of other models.According to the output of our model and to experimental data, which were used to validate parts of the structure, bacterial growth increases with organic substrate concentration and decreasing C:N ratios.As a consequence, a low carbon content relative to nitrogen in the substrates does not limit bacterial growth.

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Authors: Touratier, F., Legendre, L., & Vézina, A.
Affiliations: Université Laval (CA)
Corresponding author: Touratier, F
ORCID: Legendre, L
Venue: Aquatic Microbial Ecology
Publisher: Inter-Research Science Center
Published: 1999
Volume: 19
Pages: 105-118
ISSN: 0948-3055 (ISSN-L)
1616-1564
DOI: 10.3354/ame019105
OpenAlex: W2012493513
Cited by: 47
References: 30
Citations by year: 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
FWCI: 3.75
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
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Locations: Aquatic Microbial Ecology (publishedVersion)
Funders: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Topics: Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine Plankton and Biogeochemistry
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Keywords: bacterial growth, C/N ratio, organic substrates, substrate concentration, bacterial respiration, growth models, nutrient limitation

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