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Article Dans Une Revue Biogeosciences Année : 2013

Effect of increased pCO(2) on the planktonic metabolic balance during a mesocosm experiment in an Arctic fjord

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The effect of ocean acidification on the balance between gross community production (GCP) and community respiration (CR) (i.e., net community production, NCP) of plankton communities was investigated in summer 2010 in Kongsfjorden, west of Svalbard. Surface water, which was characterized by low concentrations of dissolved inorganic nutrients and chlorophyll a (a proxy of phytoplankton biomass), was enclosed in nine mesocosms and subjected to eight pCO(2) levels (two replicated controls and seven enhanced pCO(2) treatments) for one month. Nutrients were added to all mesocosms on day 13 of the experiment, and thereafter increase of chlorophyll a was provoked in all mesocosms. No clear trend in response to increasing pCO(2) was found in the daily values of NCP, CR, and GCP. For further analysis, these parameters were cumulated for the following three periods: phase 1 - end of CO2 manipulation until nutrient addition (t4 to t13); phase 2 - nutrient addition until the second chlorophyll a minimum (t14 to t21); phase 3 - the second chlorophyll a minimum until the end of this study (t22 to t28). A significant response was detected as a decrease of NCP with increasing pCO(2) during phase 3. CR was relatively stable throughout the experiment in all mesocosms. As a result, the cumulative GCP significantly decreased with increasing pCO(2) during phase 3. After the nutrient addition, the ratios of cumulative NCP to cumulative consumption of NO3 and PO4 showed a significant decrease during phase 3 with increasing pCO(2). The results suggest that elevated pCO(2) influenced cumulative NCP and stoichiometric C and nutrient coupling of the plankton community in a high-latitude fjord only for a limited period. However provided that there were some differences or weak correlations between NCP data based on different methods in the same experiment, this conclusion should be taken with caution.

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hal-03502650 , version 1 (26-12-2021)

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T. Tanaka, S. Alliouane, R. G. B. Bellerby, J. Czerny, A. De Kluijver, et al.. Effect of increased pCO(2) on the planktonic metabolic balance during a mesocosm experiment in an Arctic fjord. Biogeosciences, 2013, 10 (1), pp.315-325. ⟨10.5194/bg-10-315-2013⟩. ⟨hal-03502650⟩
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