Predictable ecological response to rising CO₂ of a community of marine phytoplankton.

ABSTRACT: Rising atmospheric CO ₂ and ocean acidification are fundamentally altering conditions for life of all marine organisms, including phytoplankton. Differences in CO ₂ related physiology between major phytoplankton taxa lead to differences in their ability to take up and utilize CO ₂. These differences may cause predictable shifts in the composition of marine phytoplankton communities in response to rising atmospheric CO ₂. We report an experiment in which seven species of marine phytoplankton, belonging to four major taxonomic groups (cyanobacteria, chlorophytes, diatoms, and coccolithophores), were grown at both ambient (500 μatm) and future (1,000 μatm) CO ₂ levels. These phytoplankton were grown as individual species, as cultures of p

SUBMITTER: Pardew J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5916311 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature