Publication Date:
2024-04-03
Description:
Continuous accumulation of fossil CO2 in the atmosphere and increasingly dissolved CO2 in seawater leads to ocean acidification (OA), which is known to affect phytoplankton physiology directly and/or indirectly. Since increasing attention has been paid to the effects of OA under the influences of multiple drivers, in this study, we investigated effects of elevated CO2 concentration under different levels of light and nutrients on growth rate, particulate organic (POC) and inorganic (PIC) carbon quotas of the coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi. We found that OA treatment (pH 7.84, CO2 = 920 μatm) reduced the maximum growth rate at all levels of the nutrients tested, and exacerbated photo-inhibition of growth rate under reduced availability of phosphate (from 10.5 to 0.4 μmol/l). Low nutrient levels, especially lower nitrate concentration (8.8 μmol/l compared with 101 μmol/l), decreased maximum growth rates. Nevertheless, the reduced levels of nutrients increased the maximum PIC production rate. Decreased availability of nutrients influenced growth, POC and PIC quotas more than changes in CO2 concentrations. Our results suggest that reduced nutrient availability due to reduced upward advective supply because of ocean warming may partially counteract the negative effects of OA on calcification of the coccolithophorid.
Keywords:
Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard deviation; Aragonite saturation state; Bicarbonate ion; Bicarbonate ion, standard deviation; Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (〈20 L); Calcification/Dissolution; Calcite saturation state; Calcite saturation state, standard deviation; Calculated using CO2SYS; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved, standard deviation; Carbon, inorganic, particulate; Carbon, inorganic, particulate, per cell; Carbon, inorganic, particulate, standard deviation; Carbon, organic, particulate; Carbon, organic, particulate, per cell; Carbon, organic, particulate, standard deviation; Carbonate ion; Carbonate ion, standard deviation; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide, standard deviation; Cell biovolume; Cell biovolume, standard deviation; Cell density; Cell density, standard deviation; Chromista; Emiliania huxleyi; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Growth/Morphology; Growth rate; Growth rate, standard deviation; Haptophyta; Incubation duration; Irradiance; Laboratory experiment; Laboratory strains; Light; Macro-nutrients; Nitrogen, inorganic, dissolved; Nitrogen, inorganic, dissolved, standard deviation; Nitrogen, organic, particulate; Nitrogen, organic, particulate, per cell; Nitrogen, organic, particulate, per cell, standard deviation; Not applicable; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide, standard deviation; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Particulate inorganic carbon, production, standard deviation; Particulate inorganic carbon/particulate organic carbon ratio; Particulate inorganic carbon/particulate organic carbon ratio, standard deviation; Particulate inorganic carbon per cell, standard deviation; Particulate inorganic carbon production per cell; Particulate organic carbon, production, standard deviation; Particulate organic carbon production per cell; Particulate organic nitrogen, standard deviation; Particulate organic nitrogen production, standard deviation; Pelagos; pH; pH, standard deviation; Phosphate; Phosphorus, inorganic, dissolved; Phosphorus, inorganic, dissolved, standard deviation; Phytoplankton; Potentiometric; Potentiometric titration; Primary production/Photosynthesis; Production of particulate inorganic carbon; Production of particulate organic carbon; Production of particulate organic nitrogen; Registration number of species; Salinity; Single species; Slope; Slope, standard deviation; Species; Temperature, water; Treatment; Type; Uniform resource locator/link to reference
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 3280 data points
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