Light availability and temperature, not increased CO2, will structure future meadows of Posidonia oceanica, supplement to: Hendriks, Iris; Olsen, Ylva; Duarte, Carlos Manuel (2017): Light availability and temperature, not increased CO 2 , will structure future meadows of Posidonia oceanica. Aquatic Botany, 139, 32-36

• Main Authors: Hendriks, Iris E., Olsen, Ylva S., Duarte, Carlos M.
• Other Authors: Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division, Marine Science Program, Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Global Change Department, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, C/Miquel Marqués 21, 07190 Esporles, Mallorca, Spain, The UWA Oceans Institute and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, Australia
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Benthos; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria ( 20 L); Coast and continental shelf; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Light; Mediterranean Sea; Plantae; Posidonia oceanica; Primary production/Photosynthesis; Seagrass; Single species; Temperate; Tracheophyta; Type; Species; Registration number of species; Uniform resource locator/link to reference; Experiment duration; Experiment; Identification; Temperature; water; Salinity; Alkalinity; total; Carbon dioxide; partial pressure; Irradiance; pH; Aragonite saturation state; Range; Dry mass; Shoots; Leaf area; Leaf area index; Volume; Leaf; growth rate; standard error; Time in days; Photosynthetic quantum efficiency; Maximal electron transport rate; relative; Light saturation point; Maximum photochemical quantum yield of photosystem II; Carbonate system computation flag; Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air); Bicarbonate ion; Carbonate ion; Carbon; inorganic; dissolved; Calcite saturation state; Potentiometric titration; Potentiometric; Calculated using CO2SYS; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010); Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC); Duarte; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10754/663710; https://doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.875001

We evaluated the photosynthetic performance of Posidonia oceanica during short-term laboratory exposures to ambient and elevated temperatures (24-25 °C and 29-30 °C) warming and pCO2 (380, 750 and 1000 ppm pCO2) under normal and low light conditions (200 and 40 µmol photons/m**2/s respectively). Plant growth was measured at the low light regime and showed a negative response to warming. Light was a critical factor for photosynthetic performance, although we found no evidence of compensation of photosynthetic quantum efficiency in high light. Relative Electron Rate Transport (rETRmax) was higher in plants incubated in high light, but not affected by pCO2 or temperature. The saturation irradiance (Ik) was negatively affected by temperature. We conclude that elevated CO2 does not enhance photosynthetic activity and growth, in the short term for P. oceanica, while temperature has a direct negative effect on growth. Low light availability also negatively affected photosynthetic performance during the short experimental period examined here. Therefore increasing concentrations of CO2 may not compensate for predicted future conditions of warmer water and higher turbidity for seagrass meadows.