Progressive decoupling between phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing during an iron-induced phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Ocean (EIFEX)
Progressive decoupling between phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing during an iron-induced phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Ocean (EIFEX)
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南大洋铁诱导浮游植物大量繁殖期间浮游植物生长与微型浮游动物放牧之间的渐进脱钩(EIFEX)
DOI:
10.3354/meps10937
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
V. Smetácek
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作者:
M. Latasa;Joachim Henjes;R. Scharek;P. Assmy;R. Röttgers;V. Smetácek
Dilution experiments were performed to quantify growth and mortality rates of phytoplankton groups (as defined by pigment markers) for 5 wk in an iron-induced phytoplankton bloom during the European Iron Fertilization Experiment (EIFEX) conducted in the Southern Ocean. Rates could be reliably measured for the 2 main groups, diatoms and prymnesiophytes. Mean phytoplankton intrinsic growth rates were around 0.23 d �1 , without a significant temporal trend. Mortality rates, however, decreased with time (from ~0.3 to ~0.06 d �1 ), leading to an increase in decoupling between phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing. The decrease in grazing was correlated with the decrease in concentrations of small microprotozoo- plankton (<60 µm). As a consequence, net growth in the dilution experiments increased from around 0 d �1 up to 0.13 d �1 in the last days of the experiment, 35 d after the initial iron fertilization. This pattern did not reflect the dynamics of net phytoplankton accumulation in the fertilized patch, which increased until Days 24 to 27 and decreased thereafter. The difference between experimental and natural phytoplankton net growth is the biomass that escapes microzooplankton grazing and does not accumulate in the surface mixed layer, i.e. the biomass that went to higher trophic levels plus that exported out of the mixed layer. It increased throughout EIFEX and sug- gests a shift from a predominantly recycling system towards a more exporting one.
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1309345110
发表时间:
2013-12-17
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Assmy, Philipp;Smetacek, Victor;Wolf-Gladrow, Dieter
通讯作者:
Wolf-Gladrow, Dieter