Image_1_Zooplankton Dominance Shift in Response to Climate-Driven Salinity Change: A Mesocosm Study.tiff
Climate change predictions indicate global changes in salinity with negative implications for plankton food webs; an important baseline for functioning of marine ecosystems. Current understanding of how salinity change will impact plankton communities is mostly limited to the salinization of freshwa...
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ftfrontimediafig:oai:figshare.com:article/19974893 2023-05-15T18:49:43+02:00 Image_1_Zooplankton Dominance Shift in Response to Climate-Driven Salinity Change: A Mesocosm Study.tiff Clio A. M. Hall Aleksandra M. Lewandowska 2022-06-03T05:10:44Z https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.861297.s002 https://figshare.com/articles/figure/Image_1_Zooplankton_Dominance_Shift_in_Response_to_Climate-Driven_Salinity_Change_A_Mesocosm_Study_tiff/19974893 unknown doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.861297.s002 https://figshare.com/articles/figure/Image_1_Zooplankton_Dominance_Shift_in_Response_to_Climate-Driven_Salinity_Change_A_Mesocosm_Study_tiff/19974893 CC BY 4.0 CC-BY Oceanography Marine Biology Marine Geoscience Biological Oceanography Chemical Oceanography Physical Oceanography Marine Engineering salinity plankton diversity Baltic Sea marine brackish habitat loss climate change Image Figure 2022 ftfrontimediafig https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.861297.s002 2022-06-08T23:07:25Z Climate change predictions indicate global changes in salinity with negative implications for plankton food webs; an important baseline for functioning of marine ecosystems. Current understanding of how salinity change will impact plankton communities is mostly limited to the salinization of freshwater environments, with little known about the effects of changing salinity in marine systems. In this study, we investigate the effect of salinity change on zooplankton communities under different salinity change scenarios of the Baltic Sea. Projections for future salinity change derived from regional physical-biogeochemical models were used to set-up an outdoor mesocosm experiment in the coastal area of the Gulf of Finland. Each mesocosm was inoculated with natural plankton using a mixture of both marine and freshwater communities, mimicking the natural influx of freshwater species from rivers into the Baltic Sea. Zooplankton diversity and composition changed possibly due to different salinity tolerances among the species. Among zooplankton, rotifers dominated in low salinities (74%) and cladocerans and copepods (69%) in high salinities. Our results suggest that the zooplankton community will shift to a rotifer dominated community in areas with declining salinity due to the intolerance of other zooplankton groups to freshening. Still Image Copepods Rotifer Frontiers: Figshare |
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Climate change predictions indicate global changes in salinity with negative implications for plankton food webs; an important baseline for functioning of marine ecosystems. Current understanding of how salinity change will impact plankton communities is mostly limited to the salinization of freshwater environments, with little known about the effects of changing salinity in marine systems. In this study, we investigate the effect of salinity change on zooplankton communities under different salinity change scenarios of the Baltic Sea. Projections for future salinity change derived from regional physical-biogeochemical models were used to set-up an outdoor mesocosm experiment in the coastal area of the Gulf of Finland. Each mesocosm was inoculated with natural plankton using a mixture of both marine and freshwater communities, mimicking the natural influx of freshwater species from rivers into the Baltic Sea. Zooplankton diversity and composition changed possibly due to different salinity tolerances among the species. Among zooplankton, rotifers dominated in low salinities (74%) and cladocerans and copepods (69%) in high salinities. Our results suggest that the zooplankton community will shift to a rotifer dominated community in areas with declining salinity due to the intolerance of other zooplankton groups to freshening. |
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