Publication Date:
2024-05-27
Description:
Diel and seasonal fluctuations in seawater carbonate chemistry are common in coastal waters, while in the open-ocean carbonate chemistry is much less variable. In both of these environments, ongoing ocean acidification is being superimposed on the natural dynamics of the carbonate buffer system to influence the physiology of phytoplankton. Here, we show that a coastal Thalassiosira weissflogii isolate and an oceanic diatom, Thalassiosira oceanica, respond differentially to diurnal fluctuating carbonate chemistry in current and ocean acidification (OA) scenarios. A fluctuating carbonate chemistry regime showed positive or negligible effects on physiological performance of the coastal species. In contrast, the oceanic species was significantly negatively affected. The fluctuating regime reduced photosynthetic oxygen evolution rates and enhanced dark respiration rates of T. oceanica under ambient CO2 concentration, while in the OA scenario the fluctuating regime depressed its growth rate, chlorophyll a content, and elemental production rates. These contrasting physiological performances of coastal and oceanic diatoms indicate that they differ in the ability to cope with dynamic pCO2. We propose that, in addition to the ability to cope with light, nutrient, and predation pressure, the ability to acclimate to dynamic carbonate chemistry may act as one determinant of the spatial distribution of diatom species. Habitat-relevant diurnal changes in seawater carbonate chemistry can interact with OA to differentially affect diatoms in coastal and pelagic waters.
Keywords:
Alkalinity, total; Alkalinity, total, standard deviation; Aragonite saturation state; Bicarbonate ion; Bicarbonate ion, standard deviation; Biogenic particulate silica/Carbon, organic, particulate; Biogenic particulate silica/Carbon, organic, particulate, standard deviation; Biogenic silica, per cell; Biogenic silica, standard deviation; Biogenic silica production, standard deviation; Biogenic silica production per cell; Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (〈20 L); Calcite saturation state; Calculated using CO2SYS; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved, standard deviation; Carbon, organic, particulate, production per cell; Carbon, organic, particulate/Nitrogen, organic, particulate ratio; Carbon, organic, particulate/Nitrogen, organic, particulate ratio, standard deviation; Carbonate ion; Carbonate ion, standard deviation; Carbonate system computation flag; Carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide, standard deviation; Cell size; Cell size, standard deviation; Chlorophyll a, production, standard deviation; Chlorophyll a, standard deviation; Chlorophyll a per cell; Chlorophyll a production per cell; Chromista; Effective photochemical quantum yield; Effective photochemical quantum yield, standard deviation; Figure; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Growth/Morphology; Growth rate; Growth rate, standard deviation; Laboratory experiment; Laboratory strains; Net photosynthesis rate, oxygen, per cell; Net photosynthesis rate, oxygen, per chlorophyll a; Net photosynthesis rate, standard deviation; Non photochemical quenching; Non photochemical quenching, standard deviation; North Atlantic; OA-ICC; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre; Ochrophyta; Other; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Particulate organic carbon, per cell; Particulate organic carbon, production, standard deviation; Particulate organic carbon content per cell, standard deviation; Particulate organic nitrogen, standard deviation; Particulate organic nitrogen per cell; Particulate organic nitrogen production, standard deviation; Pelagos; pH; pH, standard deviation; Phytoplankton; Potentiometric; Potentiometric titration; Primary production/Photosynthesis; Production of particulate organic nitrogen; Registration number of species; Respiration; Respiration/net photosynthesis ratio; Respiration/net photosynthesis ratio, standard deviation; Respiration rate, oxygen, per cell; Respiration rate, oxygen, standard deviation; Salinity; Single species; Species; Table; Temperature, water; Thalassiosira oceanica; Thalassiosira weissflogii; Time in hours; Treatment; Type; Uniform resource locator/link to reference
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 1944 data points
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