(Table 1) Biological and chemical characteristics of surface water stations during Nathaniel B. Palmer cruise NBP06-08 to the Ross Sea

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We present results from a field study of inorganic carbon (C) acquisition by Ross Sea phytoplankton during Phaeocystis-dominated early season blooms. Isotope disequilibrium experiments revealed that HCO3- was the primary inorganic C source for photosynthesis in all phytoplankton assemblages. From these experiments, we also derived relative enhancement factors for HCO3-/CO2 interconversion as a measure of extracellular carbonic anhydrase activity (eCA). The enhancement factors ranged from 1.0 (no apparent eCA activity) to 6.4, with an overall mean of 2.9. Additional eCA measurements, made using membrane inlet mass spectrometry (MIMS), yielded activities ranging from 2.4 to 6.9 U/[mg chl a] (mean 4.1). Measurements of short-term C-fixation parameters revealed saturation kinetics with respect to external inorganic carbon, with a mean half-saturation constant for inorganic carbon uptake (K1/2) of ~380 mM. Comparison of our early springtime results with published data from late-season Ross Sea assemblages showed that neither HCO3- utilization nor eCA activity was significantly correlated to ambient CO2 levels or phytoplankton taxonomic composition. We did, however, observe a strong negative relationship between surface water pCO2 and short-term 14C-fixation rates for the early season survey. Direct incubation experiments showed no statistically significant effects of pCO2 (10 to 80 Pa) on relative HCO3- utilization or eCA activity. Our results provide insight into the seasonal regulation of C uptake by Ross Sea phytoplankton across a range of pCO2 and phytoplankton taxonomic composition.

Supplement to: Tortell, Philippe Daniel; Trimborn, Scarlett; Li, Y; Rost, Björn; Payne, Christopher D (2010): Inorganic carbon utilization by Ross Sea phytoplankton across natural and experimental CO2 gradients. Journal of Phycology, 46(3), 433-443

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.858519
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1529-8817.2010.00839.x
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Creator Tortell, Philippe Daniel ORCID logo; Trimborn, Scarlett ORCID logo; Li, Y; Rost, Björn ORCID logo; Payne, Christopher D
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2010
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 5472008 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/5472008 Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Language English
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 108 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-173.538W, -77.450S, 169.598E, -63.395N); Ross Sea; Southern Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2006-11-08T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2006-12-08T00:00:00Z