Olofsson, Malin
- University of Gothenburg
Abstract
Temperature and CO2 levels are projected to increase in the future, with consequences for carbon and nutrient cycling in brackish environments, such as the Baltic Sea. Moreover, filamentous cyanobacteria are predicted to be favored over other phytoplankton groups under these conditions. Under a 12-day outdoor experiment, we examined the effect on a natural phytoplankton spring bloom community of elevated temperature (from 1 degrees C to 4 degrees C) and elevated pCO(2) (from 390 to 970 mu atm). No effects of elevated pCO(2) or temperature were observed on phytoplankton biovolumes, but a significantly higher photosystem II activity was observed at elevated temperature after 9 days. In addition, three species of diazotrophic filamentous cyanobacteria were inoculated to test their competitive capacity under spring bloom conditions. The toxic cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena exhibited an average specific growth rate of 0.10 d(-1) by the end of the experiment, indicating potential prevalence even during wintertime in the Baltic Sea. Generally, none of the inoculated cyanobacteria species were able to outcompete the natural phytoplankton species at temperatures
Keywords
Baltic Sea; carbon dioxide; climate change; diatoms; Nodularia spumigena
Published in
Botanica Marina
2019, volume: 62, number: 1, pages: 3-16
Publisher: WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Ecology
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2018-0005
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/113366