Influence of ocean acidification and deep water upwelling on oligotrophic plankton communities in the subtropical North Atlantic: insights from an in situ mesocosm study
Oceanic uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) causes pronounced shifts in marine carbonate chemistry and a decrease in seawater pH. Increasing evidence indicates that these changessummarized by the term ocean acidification (OA)can significantly affect marine food webs and biogeochemical cyc...
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ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:133663 2023-05-15T17:32:58+02:00 Influence of ocean acidification and deep water upwelling on oligotrophic plankton communities in the subtropical North Atlantic: insights from an in situ mesocosm study Taucher, J Bach, LT Boxhammer, T Nauendorf, A Achterberg, EP Alguero-Muniz, M Aristegui, J Czerny, J Esposito, M Guan, W Haunost, M Horn, HG Ludwig, A Meyer, J Spisla, C Sswat, M Stange, P Riebesell, U 2017 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00085 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/133663 en eng Frontiers Research Foundation http://ecite.utas.edu.au/133663/1/133663 - Influence of ocean acidification and deep water upwelling on oligotrophic.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00085 Taucher, J and Bach, LT and Boxhammer, T and Nauendorf, A and Achterberg, EP and Alguero-Muniz, M and Aristegui, J and Czerny, J and Esposito, M and Guan, W and Haunost, M and Horn, HG and Ludwig, A and Meyer, J and Spisla, C and Sswat, M and Stange, P and Riebesell, U and The Gran Canaria KOSMOS Consortium, Influence of ocean acidification and deep water upwelling on oligotrophic plankton communities in the subtropical North Atlantic: insights from an in situ mesocosm study, Frontiers in Marine Science, 4 Article 85. ISSN 2296-7745 (2017) [Refereed Article] http://ecite.utas.edu.au/133663 Earth Sciences Oceanography Biological Oceanography Refereed Article PeerReviewed 2017 ftunivtasecite https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00085 2019-12-13T22:31:25Z Oceanic uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) causes pronounced shifts in marine carbonate chemistry and a decrease in seawater pH. Increasing evidence indicates that these changessummarized by the term ocean acidification (OA)can significantly affect marine food webs and biogeochemical cycles. However, current scientific knowledge is largely based on laboratory experiments with single species and artificial boundary conditions, whereas studies of natural plankton communities are still relatively rare. Moreover, the few existing community-level studies were mostly conducted in rather eutrophic environments, while less attention has been paid to oligotrophic systems such as the subtropical ocean gyres. Here we report from a recent in situ mesocosm experiment off the coast of Gran Canaria in the eastern subtropical North Atlantic, where we investigated the influence of OA on the ecology and biogeochemistry of plankton communities in oligotrophic waters under close-to-natural conditions. This paper is the first in this Research Topic of Frontiers in Marine Biogeochemistry and provides (1) a detailed overview of the experimental design and important events during our mesocosm campaign, and (2) first insights into the ecological responses of plankton communities to simulated OA over the course of the 62-day experiment. One particular scientific objective of our mesocosm experiment was to investigate how OA impacts might differ between oligotrophic conditions and phases of high biological productivity, which regularly occur in response to upwelling of nutrient-rich deep water in the study region. Therefore, we specifically developed a deep water collection system that allowed us to obtain ~85 m 3 of seawater from ~650 m depth. Thereby, we replaced ~20% of each mesocosm's volume with deep water and successfully simulated a deep water upwelling event that induced a pronounced plankton bloom. Our study revealed significant effects of OA on the entire food web, leading to a restructuring of plankton communities that emerged during the oligotrophic phase, and was further amplified during the bloom that developed in response to deep water addition. Such CO 2 -related shifts in plankton community composition could have consequences for ecosystem productivity, biomass transfer to higher trophic levels, and biogeochemical element cycling of oligotrophic ocean regions. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Ocean acidification eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania) Frontiers in Marine Science 4 |
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Oceanic uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) causes pronounced shifts in marine carbonate chemistry and a decrease in seawater pH. Increasing evidence indicates that these changessummarized by the term ocean acidification (OA)can significantly affect marine food webs and biogeochemical cycles. However, current scientific knowledge is largely based on laboratory experiments with single species and artificial boundary conditions, whereas studies of natural plankton communities are still relatively rare. Moreover, the few existing community-level studies were mostly conducted in rather eutrophic environments, while less attention has been paid to oligotrophic systems such as the subtropical ocean gyres. Here we report from a recent in situ mesocosm experiment off the coast of Gran Canaria in the eastern subtropical North Atlantic, where we investigated the influence of OA on the ecology and biogeochemistry of plankton communities in oligotrophic waters under close-to-natural conditions. This paper is the first in this Research Topic of Frontiers in Marine Biogeochemistry and provides (1) a detailed overview of the experimental design and important events during our mesocosm campaign, and (2) first insights into the ecological responses of plankton communities to simulated OA over the course of the 62-day experiment. One particular scientific objective of our mesocosm experiment was to investigate how OA impacts might differ between oligotrophic conditions and phases of high biological productivity, which regularly occur in response to upwelling of nutrient-rich deep water in the study region. Therefore, we specifically developed a deep water collection system that allowed us to obtain ~85 m 3 of seawater from ~650 m depth. Thereby, we replaced ~20% of each mesocosm's volume with deep water and successfully simulated a deep water upwelling event that induced a pronounced plankton bloom. Our study revealed significant effects of OA on the entire food web, leading to a restructuring of plankton communities that emerged during the oligotrophic phase, and was further amplified during the bloom that developed in response to deep water addition. Such CO 2 -related shifts in plankton community composition could have consequences for ecosystem productivity, biomass transfer to higher trophic levels, and biogeochemical element cycling of oligotrophic ocean regions. |
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Taucher, J Bach, LT Boxhammer, T Nauendorf, A Achterberg, EP Alguero-Muniz, M Aristegui, J Czerny, J Esposito, M Guan, W Haunost, M Horn, HG Ludwig, A Meyer, J Spisla, C Sswat, M Stange, P Riebesell, U |
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Taucher, J Bach, LT Boxhammer, T Nauendorf, A Achterberg, EP Alguero-Muniz, M Aristegui, J Czerny, J Esposito, M Guan, W Haunost, M Horn, HG Ludwig, A Meyer, J Spisla, C Sswat, M Stange, P Riebesell, U |
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Influence of ocean acidification and deep water upwelling on oligotrophic plankton communities in the subtropical North Atlantic: insights from an in situ mesocosm study |
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Influence of ocean acidification and deep water upwelling on oligotrophic plankton communities in the subtropical North Atlantic: insights from an in situ mesocosm study |
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Influence of ocean acidification and deep water upwelling on oligotrophic plankton communities in the subtropical North Atlantic: insights from an in situ mesocosm study |
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Influence of ocean acidification and deep water upwelling on oligotrophic plankton communities in the subtropical North Atlantic: insights from an in situ mesocosm study |
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Influence of ocean acidification and deep water upwelling on oligotrophic plankton communities in the subtropical North Atlantic: insights from an in situ mesocosm study |
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influence of ocean acidification and deep water upwelling on oligotrophic plankton communities in the subtropical north atlantic: insights from an in situ mesocosm study |
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