Geographical CO 2 sensitivity of phytoplankton correlates with ocean buffer capacity
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Accumulation of anthropogenic CO2 is significantly altering ocean chemistry. A range of biological impacts resulting from this oceanic CO2 accumulation are emerging, however, the mechanisms responsible for observed differential susceptibility between organisms and ac...
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ftunivtsydney:oai:opus.lib.uts.edu.au:10453/132485 2023-05-15T15:11:08+02:00 Geographical CO 2 sensitivity of phytoplankton correlates with ocean buffer capacity Richier, S Achterberg, EP Humphreys, MP Poulton, A Suggett, DJ Tyrrell, T Moore, CM 2018-09-01 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10453/132485 unknown http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT130100202 Global Change Biology 10.1111/gcb.14324 Global Change Biology, 2018, 24 (9), pp. 4438 - 4452 1354-1013 http://hdl.handle.net/10453/132485 Ecology Phytoplankton Carbonates Carbon Dioxide Climate Seawater Acclimatization Geography Oceans and Seas Journal Article 2018 ftunivtsydney 2022-03-13T13:26:21Z © 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Accumulation of anthropogenic CO2 is significantly altering ocean chemistry. A range of biological impacts resulting from this oceanic CO2 accumulation are emerging, however, the mechanisms responsible for observed differential susceptibility between organisms and across environmental settings remain obscure. A primary consequence of increased oceanic CO2 uptake is a decrease in the carbonate system buffer capacity, which characterizes the system's chemical resilience to changes in CO2, generating the potential for enhanced variability in pCO2 and the concentration of carbonate [(Formula presented.)], bicarbonate [(Formula presented.)], and protons [H+] in the future ocean. We conducted a meta-analysis of 17 shipboard manipulation experiments performed across three distinct geographical regions that encompassed a wide range of environmental conditions from European temperate seas to Arctic and Southern oceans. These data demonstrated a correlation between the magnitude of natural phytoplankton community biological responses to short-term CO2 changes and variability in the local buffer capacity across ocean basin scales. Specifically, short-term suppression of small phytoplankton (<10 μm) net growth rates were consistently observed under enhanced pCO2 within experiments performed in regions with higher ambient buffer capacity. The results further highlight the relevance of phytoplankton cell size for the impacts of enhanced pCO2 in both the modern and future ocean. Specifically, cell size-related acclimation and adaptation to regional environmental variability, as characterized by buffer capacity, likely influences interactions between primary producers and carbonate chemistry over a range of spatio-temporal scales. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Phytoplankton University of Technology Sydney: OPUS - Open Publications of UTS Scholars Arctic |
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© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Accumulation of anthropogenic CO2 is significantly altering ocean chemistry. A range of biological impacts resulting from this oceanic CO2 accumulation are emerging, however, the mechanisms responsible for observed differential susceptibility between organisms and across environmental settings remain obscure. A primary consequence of increased oceanic CO2 uptake is a decrease in the carbonate system buffer capacity, which characterizes the system's chemical resilience to changes in CO2, generating the potential for enhanced variability in pCO2 and the concentration of carbonate [(Formula presented.)], bicarbonate [(Formula presented.)], and protons [H+] in the future ocean. We conducted a meta-analysis of 17 shipboard manipulation experiments performed across three distinct geographical regions that encompassed a wide range of environmental conditions from European temperate seas to Arctic and Southern oceans. These data demonstrated a correlation between the magnitude of natural phytoplankton community biological responses to short-term CO2 changes and variability in the local buffer capacity across ocean basin scales. Specifically, short-term suppression of small phytoplankton (<10 μm) net growth rates were consistently observed under enhanced pCO2 within experiments performed in regions with higher ambient buffer capacity. The results further highlight the relevance of phytoplankton cell size for the impacts of enhanced pCO2 in both the modern and future ocean. Specifically, cell size-related acclimation and adaptation to regional environmental variability, as characterized by buffer capacity, likely influences interactions between primary producers and carbonate chemistry over a range of spatio-temporal scales. |
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Richier, S Achterberg, EP Humphreys, MP Poulton, A Suggett, DJ Tyrrell, T Moore, CM |
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Richier, S Achterberg, EP Humphreys, MP Poulton, A Suggett, DJ Tyrrell, T Moore, CM |
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Geographical CO 2 sensitivity of phytoplankton correlates with ocean buffer capacity |
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Geographical CO 2 sensitivity of phytoplankton correlates with ocean buffer capacity |
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Geographical CO 2 sensitivity of phytoplankton correlates with ocean buffer capacity |
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Geographical CO 2 sensitivity of phytoplankton correlates with ocean buffer capacity |
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Geographical CO 2 sensitivity of phytoplankton correlates with ocean buffer capacity |
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geographical co 2 sensitivity of phytoplankton correlates with ocean buffer capacity |
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http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT130100202 Global Change Biology 10.1111/gcb.14324 Global Change Biology, 2018, 24 (9), pp. 4438 - 4452 1354-1013 http://hdl.handle.net/10453/132485 |
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