[Bacterial cell counts] - Bacterial cell counts during CDOM monoculture experiment (Collaborative Research: Planktonic Sources of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter in Seawater)

Four phytoplankton cultures and their associated bacterial communities were incubated in replicate roller bottles (1.9 L) over 3-6 weeks under laboratory conditions. Bacterial dynamics in the culture bottles were measured and correlated with geochemical parameters to determine the role of bacterial activities on the formation of CDOM in the cultures (Kinsey et al., 2018, see below).\r\n\r\nThe data include bacterial cell counts during CDOM monoculture experiment.

The phytoplankton cultures were Skeletonema sp., Leptocylindrus sp., Phaeocystis sp. and Coscinodiscus sp. Growth stages were initial, exponential, stationary, and degradation.