Seawater carbonate chemistry and viruses,bacteria Abundance and phytoplankton community structure

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Eutrophic coastal regions are highly productive and greatly influenced by human activities. Primary production supporting the coastal ecosystems is supposed to be affected by progressive ocean acidification driven by increasing CO2 emissions. In order to investigate the effects of high pCO2 (HC) on eutrophic plankton community structure and ecological functions, we employed 9 mesocosms and carried out an experiment under ambient (410 ppmv) and future high (1000 ppmv) atmospheric pCO2 conditions, using in situ plankton community in Wuyuan Bay, East China Sea. Our results showed that HC along with natural seawater temperature rise significantly boosted biomass of diatoms with decreased abundance of dinoflagellates in the late stage of the experiment, demonstrating that HC repressed the succession from diatoms to dinoflagellates, a phenomenon observed during algal blooms in the East China Sea. HC did not significantly influence the primary production or biogenic silica contents of the phytoplankton assemblages. However, the HC treatments increased the abundance of viruses and heterotrophic bacteria, reflecting a refueling of nutrients for phytoplankton growth from virus-mediated cell lysis and bacterial degradation of organic matters. Conclusively, our results suggest that increasing CO2 concentrations can modulate plankton structure including the succession of phytoplankton community and the abundance of viruses and bacteria in eutrophic coastal waters, which may lead to altered biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nutrients.

In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2021) was used to compute a complete and consistent set of carbonate system variables, as described by Nisumaa et al. (2010). In this dataset the original values were archived in addition with the recalculated parameters (see related PI). The date of carbonate chemistry calculation by seacarb is 2022-1-13.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940012
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.642208
Related Identifier https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/seacarb/index.html
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.940012
Provenance
Creator Huang, Ruiping; Sun, J (ORCID: 0000-0003-0014-199X); Yang, Yunlan; Jiang, Xiaowen; Wang, Zhen; Song, Xue; Wang, Tifeng ORCID logo; Zhang, Di; Li, He; Yi, Xiangqi ORCID logo; Chen, Shouchang; Bao, Nanou; Qu, Liming; Zhang, Rui ORCID logo; Jiao, Nianzhi; Gao, Yahui; Huang, Bangqin ORCID logo; Lin, Xin; Gao, Guang ORCID logo; Gao, Kunshan ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor Yang, Yan
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 6225 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (118.180 LON, 24.530 LAT)