TY - JOUR T1 - Impact of dust addition on Mediterranean plankton communities under present and future conditions of pH and temperature: an experimental overview A1 - Gazeau,Frédéric A1 - Van Wambeke,France A1 - Maranon,Emilio A1 - Perez-Lorenzo,Maria A1 - Alliouane,Samir A1 - Stolpe,Christian A1 - Blasco,Thierry A1 - Leblond,Nathalie A1 - Zancker,Birthe A1 - Engel,Anja A1 - Marie,Barbara A1 - Dinasquet,Julie A1 - Guieu,Cécile AD - Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France AD - Aix-Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS/INSU, IRD, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO), UM 110, 13288, Marseille, France AD - Department of Ecology and Animal Biology, Universidade de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain AD - Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de la Mer de Villefranche, IMEV, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France AD - The Marine Biological Association of the UK, PL1 2PB Plymouth, United Kingdom AD - GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany AD - CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Microbienne, LOMIC, F-66650 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France AD - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA UR - https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00688/79967/ DO - 10.5194/bg-2021-20 KW - Mediterranean Sea KW - Atmospheric deposition KW - Plankton community metabolism KW - Carbon export KW - Ocean acidification KW - Ocean warming N2 - Although atmospheric dust fluxes from arid as well as human-impacted areas represent a significant source of nutrients to surface waters of the Mediterranean Sea, studies focusing on the evolution of the metabolic balance of the plankton community following a dust deposition event are scarce and none were conducted in the context of projected future levels of temperature and pH. Moreover, most of the experiments took place in coastal areas. In the framework of the PEACETIME project, three dust-addition perturbation experiments were conducted in 300-L tanks filled with surface seawater collected in the Tyrrhenian Sea (TYR), Ionian Sea (ION) and in the Algerian basin (FAST) onboard the R/V “Pourquoi Pas?” in late spring 2017. For each experiment, six tanks were used to follow the evolution of chemical and biological stocks, biological activity and particle export. The impacts of a dust deposition event simulated at their surface were followed under present environmental conditions and under a realistic climate change scenario for 2100 (ca. +3 °C and −0.3 pH units). The tested waters were all typical of stratified oligotrophic conditions encountered in the open Mediterranean Sea at this period of the year, with low rates of primary production and a metabolic balance towards net heterotrophy. The release of nutrients after dust seeding had very contrasting impacts on the metabolism of the communities, depending on the station investigated. At TYR, the release of new nutrients was followed by a negative impact on both particulate and dissolved 14C-based production rates, while heterotrophic bacterial production strongly increased, driving the community to an even more heterotrophic state. At ION and FAST, the efficiency of organic matter export due to mineral/organic aggregation processes was lower than at TYR likely related to a lower quantity/age of dissolved organic matter present at the time of the seeding. At these stations, both the autotrophic and heterotrophic community benefited from dust addition, with a stronger relative increase in autotrophic processes observed at FAST. Our study showed that the potential positive impact of dust deposition on primary production depends on the initial composition and metabolic state of the investigated community. This potential is constrained by the quantity of nutrients added in order to sustain both the fast response of heterotrophic prokaryotes and the delayed one of primary producers. Finally, under future environmental conditions, heterotrophic metabolism was overall more impacted than primary production, with the consequence that all integrated net community production rates decreased with no detectable impact on carbon export, therefore reducing the capacity of surface waters to sequester anthropogenic CO2. Y1 - 2021 PB - Copernicus GmbH JF - Biogeosciences SN - 1726-4189 VL - 18 IS - 17 SP - 5011 EP - 5034 ID - 79967 ER -