Seawater carbonate chemistry and biological processes during experiments with four strains of Emiliania huxleyi

DOI

Four strains of the coccolithophore E. huxleyi (RCC1212, RCC1216, RCC1238, RCC1256) were grown in dilute batch culture at four CO2 levels ranging from ~200 µatm to ~1200 µatm. Growth rate, particulate organic carbon content, and particulate inorganic carbon content were measured, and organic and inorganic carbon production calculated. The four strains did not show a uniform response to carbonate chemistry changes in any of the analysed parameters and none of the four strains displayed a response pattern previously described for this species. We conclude that the sensitivity of different strains of E. huxleyi to acidification differs substantially and that this likely has a genetic basis. We propose that this can explain apparently contradictory results reported in the literature.

In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Lavigne and Gattuso, 2011) 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).

Supplement to: Langer, Gerald; Nehrke, Gernot; Probert, Ian; Ly, J; Ziveri, Patrizia (2009): Strain-specific responses of Emiliania huxleyi to changing seawater carbonate chemistry. Biogeosciences, 6(11), 2637-2646

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.733946
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-6-2637-2009
Related Identifier IsDocumentedBy https://cran.r-project.org/package=seacarb
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.733946
Provenance
Creator Langer, Gerald ORCID logo; Nehrke, Gernot ORCID logo; Probert, Ian ORCID logo; Ly, J; Ziveri, Patrizia ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor Nisumaa, Anne-Marin
Publication Year 2009
Funding Reference Seventh Framework Programme https://doi.org/10.13039/100011102 Crossref Funder ID 211384 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/211384 European Project on Ocean Acidification; Sixth Framework Programme https://doi.org/10.13039/100011103 Crossref Funder ID 511106 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/511106 European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 496 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-20.333W, -42.300S, 169.833E, 63.400N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2005-11-30T00:00:00Z