Transplant Experiment with ocean surface and bathypelagic prokaryotic communities to compare the changes in community structure of those communities exposed to the same environmental conditions. Transplant experiment of surface and bathypelagic prokaryotes

We performed a transplant experiment to compare the growth, activity and changes in DOM quality in surface and bathypelagic (~2000m depth) waters inoculated with either surface or bathypelagic prokaryotic communities and explored changes in taxonomic abundance over the course of a 13-day experiment. The experiment was divided in three treatments, surface waters (SW), surface waters enriched with inorganic nutrients (SW+N), and bathypelagic waters. Samples for the initial in situ communities and an extra treatment where we added labile carbon to the bathypelagic waters on day 9 of the experiment are also included.