Functional traits explain phytoplankton community structure and seasonal dynamics in a marine ecosystem

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle F. Edwards ◽  
Elena Litchman ◽  
Christopher A. Klausmeier
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Functional Traits ◽  
Seasonal Dynamics ◽  
Phytoplankton Community ◽  
Marine Ecosystem ◽  
Phytoplankton Community Structure

Seasonal changes in phytoplankton community structure in a bioluminescent lagoon, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
JL Pinckney ◽  
C Tomas ◽  
DI Greenfield ◽  
K Reale-Munroe ◽  
B Castillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Seasonal Changes ◽  
Phytoplankton Community ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Phytoplankton Community Structure ◽  
Us Virgin Islands

scholarly journals Response of ocean phytoplankton community structure to climate change over the 21st century: partitioning the effects of nutrients, temperature and light

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 3941-3959 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Marinov ◽  
S. C. Doney ◽  
I. D. Lima
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
Sea Ice ◽  
Phytoplankton Biomass ◽  
Phytoplankton Community ◽  
Vertical Mixing ◽  
Phytoplankton Community Structure ◽  
Marginal Sea ◽  
Small Phytoplankton ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. The response of ocean phytoplankton community structure to climate change depends, among other factors, upon species competition for nutrients and light, as well as the increase in surface ocean temperature. We propose an analytical framework linking changes in nutrients, temperature and light with changes in phytoplankton growth rates, and we assess our theoretical considerations against model projections (1980–2100) from a global Earth System model. Our proposed "critical nutrient hypothesis" stipulates the existence of a critical nutrient threshold below (above) which a nutrient change will affect small phytoplankton biomass more (less) than diatom biomass, i.e. the phytoplankton with lower half-saturation coefficient K are influenced more strongly in low nutrient environments. This nutrient threshold broadly corresponds to 45° S and 45° N, poleward of which high vertical mixing and inefficient biology maintain higher surface nutrient concentrations and equatorward of which reduced vertical mixing and more efficient biology maintain lower surface nutrients. In the 45° S–45° N low nutrient region, decreases in limiting nutrients – associated with increased stratification under climate change – are predicted analytically to decrease more strongly the specific growth of small phytoplankton than the growth of diatoms. In high latitudes, the impact of nutrient decrease on phytoplankton biomass is more significant for diatoms than small phytoplankton, and contributes to diatom declines in the northern marginal sea ice and subpolar biomes. In the context of our model, climate driven increases in surface temperature and changes in light are predicted to have a stronger impact on small phytoplankton than on diatom biomass in all ocean domains. Our analytical predictions explain reasonably well the shifts in community structure under a modeled climate-warming scenario. Climate driven changes in nutrients, temperature and light have regionally varying and sometimes counterbalancing impacts on phytoplankton biomass and structure, with nutrients and temperature dominant in the 45° S–45° N band and light-temperature effects dominant in the marginal sea-ice and subpolar regions. As predicted, decreases in nutrients inside the 45° S–45° N "critical nutrient" band result in diatom biomass decreasing more than small phytoplankton biomass. Further stratification from global warming could result in geographical shifts in the "critical nutrient" threshold and additional changes in ecology.

Phytoplankton community structure changes during autumn and spring in response to environmental variables in Methana, Saronikos Gulf, Greece

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierros Patoucheas ◽  
Olga Koukousioura ◽  
Stella Psarra ◽  
Katerina Aligizaki ◽  
Margarita D. Dimiza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Environmental Variables ◽  
Phytoplankton Community ◽  
Phytoplankton Community Structure ◽  
Structure Changes

scholarly journals Changes in phytoplankton community structure during the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) invasion of the Hudson River (New York)

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 1567-1579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Smith ◽  
R.Jan Stevenson ◽  
Nina F. Caraco ◽  
Jonathan J. Cole
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
Zebra Mussel ◽  
Dreissena Polymorpha ◽  
Phytoplankton Community ◽  
Hudson River ◽  
Phytoplankton Community Structure

Triclosan alterations of estuarine phytoplankton community structure

2017 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Pinckney ◽  
Laura Thompson ◽  
Sarah Hylton
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Phytoplankton Community ◽  
Phytoplankton Community Structure ◽  
Estuarine Phytoplankton
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