The Determining of Bacterial Production in Baikal Waters by Different Methods

Abstract

For the first time the synchronous comparative researches by definition of bacterial production in waters of lake Baikal on 14C-heterotrofic assimilations of carbonates and by the methods and of leucine incorporation are lead. Perspectives of use of the most objective method for definition of production potentialities of microbial plankton of Baikal are proved. It is shown that the level of bacterial production can be measured as by the leucine method, and on dark assimilations of carbonic acid. For conditions of Baikal it is perspective to use the radiocarbon 14С- method which most adequately reflects the balance of production-destruction processes in a strata of waters of an ecosystem of the lake.

Keywords

• Baikal
• microbiocenoses
• heterotrophic assimilation of carbonic acid
• production
• leucine method