A high resolution study of the platelet ice ecosystem in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica photosynthetic and bio-optical characteristics of a dense microalgal bloom
A high resolution study of the platelet ice ecosystem in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica photosynthetic and bio-optical characteristics of a dense microalgal bloom
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南极洲麦克默多湾血小板冰生态系统的高分辨率研究密集微藻华的光合和生物光学特征
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10.3354/meps098173
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发表时间:
1993
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
C. Sullivan
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作者:
K. Arrigo;D. H. Robinson;C. Sullivan
Microalgal absorption, biomass, and photophysiology were monitored in conjunction w t h the vertical attenuation of photosynthetically active radiation and spectral ~rradiance within the lower congelation ice and the platelet ice layer in McMurdo Sound. Antarctica in 1989. Between 89 and 99 % of the algal biomass was located within the 0.68 m thick platelet layer where standing crop, measured as chlorophyll a (CM a). increased from 280 to 1090 mg m-2 between October 26 and December 3. Algal biomass was highly stratified within the platelet ice layer. An increasing fraction. 38 to 90 %, of integrated chl a was collected from the upper 0.125 m of the platelet layer, near the base of the congelation ice. Algal pigments accounted for >95 % of total light attenuation (ice + particles) within this layer. Sea ice microalgae exhibited photosynthetic properties consistent with extreme shade adaptation, including low mean pigment-specific absorption, ii', [0.0074 to 0.0040 m2 (mg chl a ) ' ] and low assimilation numbers i0.032 to 0.180 mg C (mg chl a ) ' h-'], both of which declined with depth. Vertical prof~les revealed that low quantum yields for platelet ice assemblages were not a function of low temperature. as had previously been suspected, but vary with depth (and hence light level) from 0.033-0.051 m01 C (Ein absorbed)-' just beneath the base of the congelation ice to 0.086-0.113 m01 C (Ein absorbed)-' (approaching the theoretical maximum) at a depth of 0.31 m Microalgae at the platelet ice surface exhibited photosynthetic charactenstics which suggested that they were well adapted to the ambient light field while algae at depth appeared to retain excess photosynthetic capacity. The low 8' and compensation intensity exhibited by sea ice microalgae allowed accumulation of viable chl a in excess of the theoretical maximum of 0.4 g m-' (proposed for planktonic &atoms) to be supported by the available irrahance beneath sea ice. Fine-scale vertical profiles of photosynthetic parameters implied that values derived from course sampling of dense, stratified microalgal populations do not reliably reflect rates in situ.
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发表时间:
2006
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Proceedings of International Symposium on Long-term Variations in the Coastal Environments and Ecosystems
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