Primary productivity in oceans studying magnetotactic bacteria in sediments

• Grant number: 11/22018-3
• Support Opportunities: Research Program on Global Climate Change - Young Investigators
• Start date: April 01, 2013
• End date: March 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Oceanography - Physical Oceanography
• Principal Investigator: Luigi Jovane
• Grantee: Luigi Jovane
• Host Institution: Instituto Oceanográfico (IO). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Frederico Pereira Brandini ; Vivian Helena Pellizari
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/15854-3 - Gravimetric and magnetic modelling of the Ceará plateau, Brazilian equatorial margin, BP.MS; 15/16501-4 - Variation of minerals and clay minerals recorded in the Atlantic and Neo-Tethys ocean: new evidence of a global warming event in the middle Eocene, BP.MS; 12/18304-3 - Environmental and climatic evolution of the Amazon River and the Brazilian northern margin using clay minerals, BP.PD

Abstract

Primary productivity in oceans is related to the amount of carbon and organic matter, which depends from a series of factors that spans from temperature, nutrients availability, ocean circulation, oxic-anoxic conditions, amount of CO2, fresh water and atmospheric changes. For those reasons defining the primary productivity conditions allows to understand climate changes, pollution distribution, ocean acidification, response to tectonic events, run-off variations, faster carbon cycle along time and how the ocean system respond to those environmental variations. The complexity of the carbon cycle along geological periods enhances the solution to understand future climate changes. Magnetotactic bacteria are prokaryotes that are capable to intracellularly biomineralize magnetite of an ideal single domain size (magnetosomes) for moving along the optimal oxic-anoxic conditions. However, bacterial magnetite has only been reported in a few pre-Quaternary records because progressive burial into anoxic diagenetic environments causes its dissolution. Nevertheless, the biogeochemical factors that control magnetotactic bacterial populations in such settings are not well known. We would like to document the environment and the preservation of bacterial magnetite, which dominates the palaeomagnetic signal throughout recent sediments from Brazilian Coast. Our aim is to search for magnetotactic bacteria and understand the microbial ecosystems and environmental change related to their presence in sediments. We would like study magnetotactic bacterial populations in marine settings depending crucially nutrients availability in the water column and in sediments, on particulate iron and organic carbon delivery to the seafloor, to understand the environmental condition that allow the presence of magnetotactic bacteria and magnetosomes in sediments. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

SAVIAN, JAIRO F.; JOVANE, LUIGI; GIORGIONI, MARTINO; IACOVIELLO, FRANCESCO; RODELLI, DANIEL; ROBERTS, ANDREW P.; CHANG, LIAO; FLORINDO, FABIO; SPROVIERI, MARIO. Environmental magnetic implications of magnetofossil occurrence during the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) in pelagic sediments from the equatorial Indian Ocean. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, v. 441, n. 1, SI, p. 212-222, JAN 1 2016. (11/22018-3, 12/18304-3, 12/15995-5)

RODELLI, D.; JOVANE, L.; ROBERTS, A. P.; CYPRIANO, J.; ABREU, F.; LINS, U.. Fingerprints of partial oxidation of biogenic magnetite from cultivated and natural marine magnetotactic bacteria using synchrotron radiation. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS, v. 10, n. 3, p. 337-343, JUN 2018. (11/22018-3, 12/21212-3)

BENITES, MARIANA; ALVES, DANIEL PAVANI; MALY, MASCIMILIANO DE LOS SANTOS; JOVANE, LUIGI. Shallow gas occurrence in a Brazilian ria (Saco do Mamangua, Rio de Janeiro) inferred from high-resolution seismic data. CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH, v. 108, p. 89-96, OCT 1 2015. (11/22018-3)

COCCIONI, RODOLFO; FRONTALINI, FABRIZIO; CATANZARITI, RITA; JOVANE, LUIGI; RODELLI, DANIEL; RODRIGUES, IANCO M. M.; SAVIAN, JAIRO F.; GIORGIONI, MARTINO; GALBRUN, BRUNO. Paleoenvironmental signature of the Selandian-Thanetian Transition Event (STTE) and Early Late Paleocene Event (ELPE) in the Contessa Road section (western Neo-Tethys). PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, v. 523, p. 62-77, JUN 1 2019. (11/22018-3)

VICENTE ALVES, DANIEL PAVANI; CALDATO, EDUARDO BOMFIN; DE MOURA, DENISE SILVA; DOS SANTOS, ROBERTO P. ZANON; JOVANE, LUIGI. High-Resolution Sub-Bottom and Magnetometer Data From Southeastern Brazilian Coast. FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE, v. 7, OCT 16 2020. (11/22018-3, 16/24946-9)

GIORGIONI, MARTINO; JOVANE, LUIGI; REGO, ERIC S.; RODELLI, DANIEL; FRONTALINI, FABRIZIO; COCCIONI, RODOLFO; CATANZARITI, RITA; OZCAN, ERCAN. Carbon cycle instability and orbital forcing during the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 9, JUN 27 2019. (11/22018-3, 15/16501-4, 12/15995-5)

JOVANE, LUIGI; FLORINDO, FABIO; ACTON, GARY; OHNEISER, CHRISTIAN; SAGNOTTI, LEONARDO; STRADA, ELEONORA; VEROSUB, KENNETH L.; WILSON, GARY S.; IACOVIELLO, FRANCESCO; LEVY, RICHARD H.; et al. Miocene Glacial Dynamics Recorded by Variations in Magnetic Properties in the ANDRILL-2A Drill Core. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH, v. 124, n. 3, p. 2297-2312, MAR 2019. (11/22018-3)

BRANDINI, FREDERICO; MICHELAZZO, LUAN SAYEG; FREITAS, GABRIEL RUSKE; CAMPOS, GIULIA; CHUQUI, MATEUS; JOVANE, LUIGI. Carbon Flow for Plankton Metabolism of Saco do Mamangua Ria, Bay of Ilha Grande, a Subtropical Coastal Environment in the South Brazil Bight. FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE, v. 6, SEP 18 2019. (18/17061-6, 11/22018-3)

LUKENEDER, ALEXANDER; SOTAK, JAN; JOVANE, LUIGI; GIORGIONI, MARTINO; SAVIAN, JAIRO F.; HALASOVA, EVA; REHAKOVA, DANIELA; JOZSA, STEFAN; KROH, ANDREAS; FLORINDO, FABIO; et al. Multistratigraphic records of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian-Cenomanian) Puez key area in N. Italy. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, v. 447, p. 65-87, APR 1 2016. (11/22018-3, 12/15995-5)

CORNAGGIA, FLAMINIA; BERNARDINI, SIMONE; GIORGIONI, MARTINO; SILVA, GABRIEL L. X.; NAGY, ANDRE ISTVAN M.; JOVANE, LUIGI. Abyssal oceanic circulation and acidification during the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO). SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 10, n. 1, APR 21 2020. (16/24946-9, 11/22018-3, 18/17061-6)

ROBERTS, ANDREW P.; FLORINDO, FABIO; CHANG, LIAO; HESLOP, DAVID; JOVANE, LUIGI; LARRASOANA, JUAN C.. Magnetic properties of pelagic marine carbonates. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS, v. 127, p. 111-139, DEC 2013. (11/22018-3)

FIORONI, CHIARA; VILLA, GIULIANA; PERSICO, DAVIDE; JOVANE, LUIGI. Middle Eocene-Lower Oligocene calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and paleoceanographic implications from Site 711 (equatorial Indian Ocean). MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY, v. 118, p. 50-62, JUN 2015. (11/22018-3)

SAVIAN, JAIRO F.; JOVANE, LUIGI; FRONTALINI, FABRIZIO; TRINDADE, RICARDO I. F.; COCCIONI, RODOLFO; BOHATY, STEVEN M.; WILSON, PAUL A.; FLORINDO, FABIO; ROBERTS, ANDREW P.; CATANZARITI, RITA; et al. Enhanced primary productivity and magnetotactic bacterial production in response to middle Eocene warming in the Neo-Tethys Ocean. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, v. 414, p. 32-45, NOV 15 2014. (11/22018-3, 12/18304-3)

CORNAGGIA, FLAMINIA; JOVANE, LUIGI; ALESSANDRETTI, LUCIANO; DE LIMA FERREIRA, PAULO ALVES; LOPES FIGUEIRA, RUBENS C.; RODELLI, DANIEL; BENEDETTI BERBEL, GLAUCIA BUENO; BRAGA, ELISABETE S.. Diversions of the Ribeira River Flow and Their Influence on Sediment Supply in the Cananeia-lguape Estuarine-Lagoonal System (SE Brazil). Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 6, APR 10 2018. (11/22018-3)

SAVIAN, JAIRO F.; JOVANE, LUIGI; GIORGIONI, MARTINO; IACOVIELLO, FRANCESCO; RODELLI, DANIEL; ROBERTS, ANDREW P.; CHANG, LIAO; FLORINDO, FABIO; SPROVIERI, MARIO. Environmental magnetic implications of magnetofossil occurrence during the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) in pelagic sediments from the equatorial Indian Ocean. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, v. 441, p. 11-pg., 2016-01-01. (12/15995-5, 11/22018-3, 12/18304-3)

BIN HASSAN, MUHAMMAD; RODELLI, DANIEL; BENITES, MARIANA; ABREU, FERNANDA; MURTON, BRAMLEY; JOVANE, LUIGI. Presence of biogenic magnetite in ferromanganese nodules. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS, v. 12, n. 3, p. 288-295, JUN 2020. (17/04821-0, 18/17061-6, 11/22018-3, 14/50820-7)

RODELLI, D.; JOVANE, L.; OZCAN, E.; GIORGIONI, M.; COCCIONI, R.; FRONTALINI, F.; REGO, E. S.; BROGI, A.; CATANZARITI, R.; LESS, GY.; et al. High-resolution integrated magnetobiostratigraphy of a new middle Eocene section from the Neotethys (Elazig Basin, eastern Turkey). GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN, v. 130, n. 1-2, p. 193-207, JAN 2018. (11/22018-3, 12/21212-3, 12/15995-5)

ABREU, FERNANDA; CAROLINA, ANA; ARAUJO, V.; LEAO, PEDRO; SILVA, KAREN TAVARES; DE CARVALHO, FABIOLA MARQUES; CUNHA, OBERDAN DE LIMA; ALMEIDA, LUIZ GONZAGA; GEURINK, COREY; FARINA, MARCOS; et al. Culture-independent characterization of novel psychrophilic magnetotactic cocci from Antarctic marine sediments. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, v. 18, n. 12, p. 4426-4441, DEC 2016. (12/21212-3, 11/22018-3)

JOVANE, LUIGI; FIGUEIREDO, JORGE J. P.; ALVES, DANIEL P. V.; IACOPINI, DAVID; GIORGIONI, MARTINO; VANNUCCHI, PAOLA; MOURA, DENISE S.; BEZERRA, FRANCISCO H. R.; VITAL, HELENICE; RIOS, ISABELLA L. A.; et al. Seismostratigraphy of the Ceara Plateau: Clues to Decipher the Cenozoic Evolution of Brazilian Equatorial Margin. Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 4, OCT 25 2016. (11/22018-3, 12/15995-5)

REGO, E. S.; JOVANE, L.; HEIN, J. R.; SANT'ANNA, L. G.; GIORGIONI, M.; RODELLI, D.; OZCAN, E.. Mineralogical evidence for warm and dry climatic conditions in the Neo-Tethys (eastern Turkey) during the middle Eocene. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, v. 501, p. 45-57, JUL 15 2018. (11/22018-3, 15/16501-4, 12/15995-5, 16/02288-0)

RODELLI, D.; JOVANE, L.; GIORGIONI, M.; REGO, E. S.; CORNAGGIA, F.; BENITES, M.; CEDRAZ, P.; BERBEL, G. B. B.; BRAGA, E. S.; USTRA, A.; et al. Diagenetic Fate of Biogenic Soft and Hard Magnetite in Chemically Stratified Sedimentary Environments of Mamangua Ria, Brazil. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH, v. 124, n. 3, p. 2313-2330, MAR 2019. (11/22018-3)

ROMANO, RENATO GAMBA; BENDIA, AMANDA GONCALVES; FORNAZIER MOREIRA, JULIO CEZAR; FRANCO, DIEGO CASTILLO; SIGNORI, CAMILA NEGRAO; YU, TIANTIAN; WANG, FENGPING; JOVANE, LUIGI; PELLIZARI, VIVIAN HELENA. Bathyarchaeia occurrence in rich methane sediments from a Brazilian ria. ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE, v. 263, DEC 5 2021. (11/22018-3, 18/17061-6)