Dissolved Compounds Excreted by Copepods Reshape the Active Marine Bacterioplankton Community Composition

Abstract

Copepod Excretion and Bacterial Community Structure copepod diets can have a significant impact on the quantity and quality of their excretion compounds, which can subsequently generate shifts in the active bacterial composition. The bacterial response is probably associated with common-opportunistic sea surface microbes that are adapted to rapidly reacting to environmental offers.