caa a22 4500 467904227 CHVBK 20180406152829.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10661-005-9124-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10661-005-9124-2 Monitoring of a Coastal Mediterranean Area: Culturable Bacteria, Phytoplankton, Environmental Factors and their Relationships in the Southern Adriatic Sea [Elektronische Daten] [Loredana Stabili, Carmela Caroppo, Rosa Cavallo] Culturable heterotrophic bacterial and phytoplanktonic densities were investigated at four sites in the Southern Adriatic Sea (Brindisi, S. Cataldo, Otranto and S. M. di Leuca) over an annual cycle. The main phytoplankton groups, the bacterial biodiversity, as well as the faecal contamination indicators were determined. Culturable bacterial numbers averaged 4.8 ± 0.2 log CFU ml−1 whereas phytoplankton numbers averaged 2.1 ± 0.4 log cells ml−1. Relationships between culturable bacteria, phytoplankton and the environmental factors were established. Bacterial and phytoplankton densities usually depended significantly on temperature, dissolved oxygen, phosphate and nitrite only in the S. Cataldo transect. In all the examined transects phytoplankton showed a bloom during the January-February period followed by a bacterial peak during the February-March period. Thus we can suppose that the phytoplankton winter bloom is responsible for the availabily of organic matter for bacterial populations in the following months in this oligotrophic ecosystem. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 monitoring nationallicence culturable heterotrophic bacteria nationallicence microbial contamination nationallicence phytoplankton nationallicence environmental factors nationallicence water quality nationallicence Stabili Loredana Istituto per l'Ambiente Marino Costiero, Sezione di Taranto, CNR, via Roma 3, 74100, Taranto, Italy aut Caroppo Carmela Istituto per l'Ambiente Marino Costiero, Sezione di Taranto, CNR, via Roma 3, 74100, Taranto, Italy aut Cavallo Rosa Istituto per l'Ambiente Marino Costiero, Sezione di Taranto, CNR, via Roma 3, 74100, Taranto, Italy aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Springer Netherlands 121/1-3(2006-10-01), 303-325 0167-6369 121:1-3<303 2006 121 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9124-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9124-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stabili Loredana Istituto per l'Ambiente Marino Costiero, Sezione di Taranto, CNR, via Roma 3, 74100, Taranto, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Caroppo Carmela Istituto per l'Ambiente Marino Costiero, Sezione di Taranto, CNR, via Roma 3, 74100, Taranto, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cavallo Rosa Istituto per l'Ambiente Marino Costiero, Sezione di Taranto, CNR, via Roma 3, 74100, Taranto, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Springer Netherlands 121/1-3(2006-10-01), 303-325 0167-6369 121:1-3<303 2006 121 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer