Influence of Ocean Acidification on a Natural Winter-to-Summer Plankton Succession: First Insights from a Long-Term Mesocosm Study Draw Attention to Periods of Low Nutrient Concentrations
Fig 8
NMDS analysis of plankton community composition based on Bray-Curtis dissimilarities from (A) the beginning of the experiment (Stress = 0.0452), (B) peak chla concentrations during the first bloom (Stress = 0.0269), (C) peak chla concentrations during the second bloom (Stress = 0.0831), and (D) during the post-bloom period (Stress = 0.0138). Significant clustering (ANOSIM p = 0.039) between ambient and high CO2 mesocosms was only observed during the second bloom (C). The underlying data implemented in the analysis are shown in Table 3 and S2, S3 and S4 Tables.