Acidification and iron limitation effects on the photophysiology, growth, carbon production, and cellular pigment and trace metal quotas of the Antarctic phytoplankton Geminigera cryophila and Pseudo‐nitzschia subcurvata ...

Ecophysiological studies looking at the combined effects of ocean acidification (OA) and iron (Fe) availability on Southern Ocean (SO) phytoplankton are still limited. To gain a better mechanistic understanding of how the two ecologically important SO phytoplankton groups cope with OA and Fe limitat...

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Main Authors: Camoying, Marianne, Thoms, Silke, Geuer, Jana K, Koch, Boris P, Bischof, Kai, Trimborn, Scarlett
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2022
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.943573
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.943573
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Summary:Ecophysiological studies looking at the combined effects of ocean acidification (OA) and iron (Fe) availability on Southern Ocean (SO) phytoplankton are still limited. To gain a better mechanistic understanding of how the two ecologically important SO phytoplankton groups cope with OA and Fe limitation, we conducted laboratory incubation experiments on the Antarctic cryptophyte Geminigera cryophila and the diatom Pseudo‐nitzschia subcurvata. Geminigera cryophila (CCMP 2564) was isolated from the Southern Ocean and obtained from Matt Johnson's Laboratory of Protistan Ecology at the Woods Hole Oceanography Institute, United States. Pseudo-nitzschia subcurvata was isolated from the Southern Ocean by P. Assmy during Polarstern expedition ANT- XXI/4. Both species were grown at 2°C under different pCO2 (400 vs. 900 μatm) and Fe (0.6 vs. 1.2 nM) conditions. For P. subcurvata, an additional high pCO2 level was applied (1400 μatm). For both species, growth, photophysiology, cellular quotas of particulate organic ...