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Título: High CO2 under nutrient fertilization increases primary production and biomass in subtropical phytoplankton communities: A mesocosm approach
Autores/as: Hernández-Hernández, Nauzet 
Bach, Lennart T.
Montero, María F. 
Taucher, Jan
Baños, Isabel 
Guan, Wanchun
Espósito, Mario
Ludwig, Andrea
Achterberg, Eric P.
Riebesell, Ulf
Arístegui, Javier 
Clasificación UNESCO: 251001 Oceanografía biológica
Palabras clave: Ocean acidification
Nutrient fertilization
Mesocosm
Size-fractionated primary production
Phytoplankton community structure, et al.
Fecha de publicación: 2018
Publicación seriada: Frontiers in Marine Science 
Resumen: The subtropical oceans are home to one of the largest ecosystems on Earth, contributing to nearly one third of global oceanic primary production. Ocean warming leads to enhanced stratification in the oligotrophic ocean but also intensification in cross-shore wind gradients and thus in eddy kinetic energy across eastern boundary regions of the subtropical gyres. Phytoplankton thriving in a future warmer oligotrophic subtropical ocean with enhanced CO2levels could therefore be patchily fertilized by increased mesoscale and submesoscale variability inducing nutrient pumping into the surface ocean. Under this premise, we have tested the response of three size classes (0.2-2, 2-20, and > 20 μm) of subtropical phytoplankton communities in terms of primary production, chlorophyll and cell biomass, to increasing CO2concentrations and nutrient fertilization during an in situ mesocosm experiment in oligotrophic waters offof the island of Gran Canaria. We found no significant CO2-related effect on primary production and biomass under oligotrophic conditions (phase I). In contrast, primary production, chlorophyll and biomass displayed a significant and pronounced increase under elevated CO2conditions in all groups after nutrient fertilization, both during the bloom (phase II) and post-bloom (phase III) conditions. Although the relative increase of primary production in picophytoplankton (250%) was 2.5 higher than in microphytoplankton (100%) after nutrient fertilization, comparing the high and low CO2treatments, microphytoplankton dominated in terms of biomass, contributing > 57% to the total. These results contrast with similar studies conducted in temperate and cold waters, where consistently small phytoplankton benefitted after nutrient additions at high CO2, pointing to different CO2-sensitivities across plankton communities and ecosystem types in the ocean.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/41908
ISSN: 2296-7745
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00213
Fuente: Frontiers in Marine Science [ISSN 2296-7745], v. 5 (5), article number 213
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