Phytoplankton Morpho-Functional Trait Variability along Coastal Environmental Gradients.

ABSTRACT: We utilized the trait-based approach in a novel way to examine how specific phytoplankton traits are related to physical features connected to global change, water quality features connected to catchment change, and nutrient availability connected to nutrient loading. For the analyses, we used summertime monitoring data originating from the coastal northern Baltic Sea and generalized additive mixed modeling (GAMM). Of the physical features connected to global climate change, temperature was the most important affecting several studied traits. Nitrogen-fixing, buoyant, non-motile, and autotrophic phytoplankton, as well as harmful cyanobacteria, benefited from a higher temperature. Salinity and stratification did not have clear effects on the traits. Water transparency, which in the Baltic S

SUBMITTER: Lehtinen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8708429 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature