Hundred years of environmental change and phytoplankton ecophysiological variability archived in coastal sediments.

ABSTRACT: Marine protist species have been used for several decades as environmental indicators under the assumption that their ecological requirements have remained more or less stable through time. However, a growing body of evidence suggests that marine protists, including several phytoplankton species, are in fact highly diverse and may quickly respond to changes in the environment. Predicting how future climate will impact phytoplankton populations is important, but this task has been challenged by a lack of time-series of ecophysiological parameters at time-scales relevant for climate studies (i.e. at least decadal). Here, we report on ecophysiological variability in a marine dinoflagellate over a 100-year period of well-documented environmental change, by using the sedimentary archive of livi

SUBMITTER: Ribeiro S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3623915 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature