Alterations in microbial community composition with increasing fCO2: a mesocosm study in the eastern Baltic Sea.

Crawfurd, Katharine J., Alvarez-Fernandez, Santiago, Mojica, Kristina D. A., Riebesell, Ulf and Brussaard, Corina P. D. (2017) Alterations in microbial community composition with increasing fCO2: a mesocosm study in the eastern Baltic Sea. Open Access Biogeosciences (BG), 14 (16). pp. 3831-3849. DOI 10.5194/bg-14-3831-2017.

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Abstract

Ocean acidification resulting from the uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) by the ocean is considered a major threat to marine ecosystems. Here we examined the effects of ocean acidification on microbial community dynamics in the eastern Baltic Sea during the summer of 2012 when inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus were strongly depleted. Large-volume in situ mesocosms were employed to mimic present, future and far future CO2 scenarios. All six groups of phytoplankton enumerated by flow cytometry ( <  20 µm cell diameter) showed distinct trends in net growth and abundance with CO2 enrichment. The picoeukaryotic phytoplankton groups Pico-I and Pico-II displayed enhanced abundances, whilst Pico-III, Synechococcus and the nanoeukaryotic phytoplankton groups were negatively affected by elevated fugacity of CO2 (fCO2). Specifically, the numerically dominant eukaryote, Pico-I, demonstrated increases in gross growth rate with increasing fCO2 sufficient to double its abundance. The dynamics of the prokaryote community closely followed trends in total algal biomass despite differential effects of fCO2 on algal groups. Similarly, viral abundances corresponded to prokaryotic host population dynamics. Viral lysis and grazing were both important in controlling microbial abundances. Overall our results point to a shift, with increasing fCO2, towards a more regenerative system with production dominated by small picoeukaryotic phytoplankton.

Document Type: Article
Research affiliation: OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB2 Marine Biogeochemistry > FB2-BI Biological Oceanography
NIOZ
HGF-AWI
Kiel University
Refereed: Yes
Open Access Journal?: Yes
Publisher: Copernicus Publications (EGU)
Projects: MESOAQUA, KOSMOS, BIOACID, SOPRAN
Date Deposited: 14 Sep 2017 08:18
Last Modified: 06 Feb 2020 09:04
URI: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/39371

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