MacGilchrist, G A; Shi, T; Tyrrell, Toby; Richier, Sophie; Moore, C M; Dumousseaud, Cynthia; Achterberg, Eric Pieter (2014): Effect of enhanced pCO2 levels on the production of dissolved organic carbon and transparent exopolymer particles in short-term bioassay experiments [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.837464
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Abstract:
It has been proposed that increasing levels of pCO2 in the surface ocean will lead to more partitioning of the organic carbon fixed by marine primary production into the dissolved rather than the particulate fraction. This process may result in enhanced accumulation of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the surface ocean and/or concurrent accumulation of transparent exopolymer particles (TEPs), with important implications for the functioning of the marine carbon cycle. We investigated this in shipboard bioassay experiments that considered the effect of four different pCO2 scenarios (ambient, 550, 750 and 1000 µatm) on unamended natural phytoplankton communities from a range of locations in the northwest European shelf seas. The environmental settings, in terms of nutrient availability, phytoplankton community structure and growth conditions, varied considerably between locations. We did not observe any strong or consistent effect of pCO2 on DOC production. There was a significant but highly variable effect of pCO2 on the production of TEPs. In three of the five experiments, variation of TEP production between pCO2 treatments was caused by the effect of pCO2 on phytoplankton growth rather than a direct effect on TEP production. In one of the five experiments, there was evidence of enhanced TEP production at high pCO2 (twice as much production over the 96 h incubation period in the 750 matm treatment compared with the ambient treatment) independent of indirect effects, as hypothesised by previous studies. Our results suggest that the environmental setting of experiments (community structure, nutrient availability and occurrence of phytoplankton growth) is a key factor determining the TEP response to pCO2 perturbations.
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MacGilchrist, G A; Shi, T; Tyrrell, Toby; Richier, Sophie; Moore, C M; Dumousseaud, Cynthia; Achterberg, Eric Pieter (2014): Effect of enhanced pCO2 levels on the production of dissolved organic carbon and transparent exopolymer particles in short-term bioassay experiments. Biogeosciences, 11(13), 3695-3706, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-3695-2014
Original version:
Richier, Sophie; Achterberg, Eric Pieter; Archer, Steve; Bretherton, Laura; Brown, Ian; Clark, Darren; Dumousseaud, Cynthia; Holland, Ross J; Hopkins, Frances E; MacGilchrist, G A; Moore, C Mark; Poulton, Alex J; Rees, Andrew; Shi, T; Stinchcombe, Mark Colin; Suggett, David J; Zubkov, Mikhail V; Young, Jeremy; Tyrrell, Toby (2014): Ocean acidification impacts on Sea Surface biology and biogeochemistry in Northwest European Shelf Seas: a high-replicated shipboard approach. British Oceanographic Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, https://doi.org/10.5285/f44043b2-b9f0-71f2-e044-000b5de50f38
Further details:
Lavigne, Héloïse; Epitalon, Jean-Marie; Gattuso, Jean-Pierre (2014): seacarb: seawater carbonate chemistry with R. R package version 3.0. https://cran.r-project.org/package=seacarb
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Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), grant/award no. NE/H017305/1: Impacts of ocean acidification on key benthic ecosystems, communities, habitats, species and life cycles
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Median Latitude: 52.991959 * Median Longitude: -2.776520 * South-bound Latitude: 46.202300 * West-bound Longitude: -7.083500 * North-bound Latitude: 56.787830 * East-bound Longitude: 3.158500
Date/Time Start: 2011-06-08T02:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2011-07-02T02:00:00
Minimum Elevation: -12.0 m * Maximum Elevation: -5.0 m
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In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Lavigne et al, 2014) was used to compute a complete and consistent set of carbonate system variables, as described by Nisumaa et al. (2010). In this dataset the original values were archived in addition with the recalculated parameters (see related PI). The date of carbonate chemistry calculation is 2014-10-28.
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Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
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