FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Phytoplankton taxonomic and functional diversity patterns across a coastal tidal front BT AF Ramond, Pierre Siano, Raffaele Schmitt, Sophie de Vargas, Colomban Marié, Louis Memery, Laurent Sourisseau, Marc AS 1:1,2,3;2:2;3:2;4:1,4;5:5;6:6;7:2; FF 1:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS;2:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS;3:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS;4:;5:PDG-ODE-LOPS-OC;6:;7:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS; C1 Sorbonne Université, CNRS-UMR7144-Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, 29688, Roscoff, France Ifremer-Centre de Brest, DYNECO/Pelagos, Technopôle Brest Iroise, 29280, Plouzané, France Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, NIOZ-Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Den Burg, The Netherlands Research Federation for the Study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/GOSEE, 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75016, Paris, France Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), UMR 6523 Univ. Brest, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Plouzané, France Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Environnement MARin (LEMAR), UMR 6539 Univ. Brest, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Plouzané, France C2 UNIV SORBONNE, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE INST SEA RESEARCH (NIOZ), NETHERLANDS GO SEE, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE CNRS, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS PDG-ODE-LOPS-OC UM LOPS LEMAR IN WOS Ifremer UPR WOS Ifremer UMR WOS Cotutelle UMR DOAJ copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-univ-france IF 4.997 TC 15 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00677/78933/81307.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00677/78933/81310.pdf LA English DT Article CR M2BIPAT LEG1 M2BIPAT LEG2 BO Côtes De La Manche Albert Lucas AB Oceanic physics at fine scale; e.g. eddies, fronts, filaments; are notoriously difficult to sample. However, an increasing number of theoretical approaches hypothesize that these processes affect phytoplankton diversity which have cascading effects on regional ecosystems. In 2015, we targeted the Iroise Sea (France) and evidenced the setting up of the Ushant tidal front from the beginning of spring to late summer. Seawater samples were taken during three sampling cruises and DNA-barcoding allowed us to investigate patterns of eukaryotic phytoplankton diversity across this front. First focusing on patterns of taxonomic richness, we evidenced that the front harbored a hotspot of eukaryotic phytoplankton diversity sustained throughout summer. We then detail the ecological processes leading to the formation of this hotspot by studying shifts in community composition across the Iroise Sea. Physical mixing mingled the communities surrounding the front, allowing the formation of a local ecotone, but it was cycles of disturbances and nutrient inputs over the front that allowed a decrease in competitive exclusion, which maintained a higher diversity of rare phytoplankton taxa. These processes did not select a specific ecological strategy as inferred by a trait approach coupled to our taxonomic approach. Instead the front favored higher richness within widespread strategies, resulting in functional redundancy. We detail how fine-scale ocean physics affect phytoplankton diversity and suppose that this interplay is a major control on regional ecosystems. PY 2021 PD JAN SO Scientific Reports SN 2045-2322 PU Springer Science and Business Media LLC VL 11 IS 1 UT 000616809300002 DI 10.1038/s41598-021-82071-0 ID 78933 ER EF