Pelagic community production and carbon-nutrient stoichiometry under variable ocean acidification in an Arctic fjord
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| Date | 2013 | ||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||
| Other localization | http://www.zenodo.org/record/7075 | ||||||||
| Author(s) | Silyakova A.1, 2, Bellerby R. G. J.1, 2, 3, 4, Schulz K. G.5, 6, Czerny J.5, Tanaka T.7, 8, Nondal G.1, 2, 3, Riebesell U.5, Engel A.5, de Lange T.3, 4, Ludvig A.5 | ||||||||
| Affiliation(s) | 1 : Uni Bjerknes Ctr, N-5007 Bergen, Norway. 2 : Bjerknes Ctr Climate Res, N-5007 Bergen, Norway. 3 : Norwegian Inst Water Res, N-5006 Bergen, Norway. 4 : Univ Bergen, Inst Geophys, N-5007 Bergen, Norway. 5 : Helmholtz Ctr Ocean Res Kiel GEOMAR, D-24105 Kiel, Germany. 6 : So Cross Univ, Sch Environm Sci & Management, Ctr Coastal Biogeochem, Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia. 7 : INSU CNRS, Lab Oceanog Villefranche, F-06234 Villefranche Sur Mer, France. 8 : Univ Paris 06, Observ Oceanol Villefranche, F-06230 Villefranche Sur Mer, France. |
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| Source | Biogeosciences (1726-4170) (Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh), 2013 , Vol. 10 , N. 7 , P. 4847-4859 | ||||||||
| DOI | 10.5194/bg-10-4847-2013 | ||||||||
| WOS© Times Cited | 13 | ||||||||
| Abstract | Net community production (NCP) and carbon to nutrient uptake ratios were studied during a large-scale mesocosm experiment on ocean acidification in Kongsfjorden, western Svalbard, during June-July 2010. Nutrient depleted fjord water with natural plankton assemblages, enclosed in nine mesocosms of similar to 50m(3) in volume, was exposed to pCO(2) levels ranging initially from 185 to 1420 mu atm. NCP estimations are the cumulative change in dissolved inorganic carbon concentrations after accounting for gas exchange and total alkalinity variations. Stoichiometric coupling between inorganic carbon and nutrient net uptake is shown as a ratio of NCP to a cumulative change in inorganic nutrients. Phytoplankton growth was stimulated by nutrient addition half way through the experiment and three distinct peaks in chlorophyll a concentration were observed during the experiment. Accordingly, the experiment was divided in three phases. Cumulative NCP was similar in all mesocosms over the duration of the experiment. However, in phases I and II, NCP was higher and in phase III lower at elevated pCO(2). Due to relatively low inorganic nutrient concentration in phase I, C : N and C : P uptake ratios were calculated only for the period after nutrient addition (phase II and phase III). For the total post-nutrient period (phase II+ phase III) ratios were close to Redfield, however they were lower in phase II and higher in phase III. Variability of NCP, C : N and C : P uptake ratios in different phases reflects the effect of increasing CO2 on phytoplankton community composition and succession. The phytoplankton community was composed predominantly of haptophytes in phase I, prasinophytes, dinoflagellates, and cryptophytes in phase II, and haptophytes, prasinophytes, dinoflagellates and chlorophytes in phase III (Schulz et al., 2013). Increasing ambient inorganic carbon concentrations have also been shown to promote primary production and carbon assimilation. For this study, it is clear that the pelagic ecosystem response to increasing CO2 is more complex than that represented in previous work, e. g. Bellerby et al. (2008). Carbon and nutrient uptake representation in models should, where possible, be more focused on individual plankton functional types as applying a single stoichiometry to a biogeochemical model with regard to the effect of increasing pCO(2) may not always be optimal. The phase variability in NCP and stoichiometry may be better understood if CO2 sensitivities of the plankton's functional type biogeochemical uptake kinetics and trophic interactions are better constrained. | ||||||||
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