Ocean acidification with (de)eutrophication will alter future phytoplankton growth and succession

Flynn, Kevin J., Clark, Darren R., Mitra, Aditee ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5572-9331, Fabian, Heiner, Hansen, Per J., Glibert, Patricia M., Wheeler, Glen L., Stoecke, Diane K., Blackford, Jerry C. and Brownlee, Colin 2015. Ocean acidification with (de)eutrophication will alter future phytoplankton growth and succession. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1804) , 20142604. 10.1098/rspb.2014.2604

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Abstract

Human activity causes ocean acidification (OA) though the dissolution of anthropogenically generated CO2 into seawater, and eutrophication through the addition of inorganic nutrients. Eutrophication increases the phytoplankton biomass that can be supported during a bloom, and the resultant uptake of dissolved inorganic carbon during photosynthesis increases water-column pH (bloom-induced basification). This increased pH can adversely affect plankton growth. With OA, basification commences at a lower pH. Using experimental analyses of the growth of three contrasting phytoplankton under different pH scenarios, coupled with mathematical models describing growth and death as functions of pH and nutrient status, we show how different conditions of pH modify the scope for competitive interactions between phytoplankton species. We then use the models previously configured against experimental data to explore how the commencement of bloom-induced basification at lower pH with OA, and operating against a background of changing patterns in nutrient loads, may modify phytoplankton growth and competition. We conclude that OA and changed nutrient supply into shelf seas with eutrophication or de-eutrophication (the latter owing to pollution control) has clear scope to alter phytoplankton succession, thus affecting future trophic dynamics and impacting both biogeochemical cycling and fisheries.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Earth and Environmental Sciences
Additional Information:	This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence
Publisher:	Royal Society, The
ISSN:	0962-8452
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	19 February 2020
Date of Acceptance:	19 January 2015
Last Modified:	04 May 2023 21:01
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/129691

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