Large Plankton Enhance Heterotrophy Under Experimental Warming in a Temperate Coastal Ecosystem

Tamara Huete-Stauffer, Nestor Arandia-Gorostidi, Natalia González-Benítez, Laura Díaz-Pérez, Alejandra Calvo-Díaz, Xose Anxelu G. Moran

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Abstract

Microbes are key players in oceanic carbon fluxes. Temperate ecosystems are seasonally variable and thus suitable for testing the effect of warming on microbial carbon fluxes at contrasting oceanographic conditions. In four experiments conducted in February, April, August and October 2013 in coastal NE Atlantic waters, we monitored microbial plankton stocks and daily rates of primary production, bacterial heterotrophic production and respiration at in situ temperature and at 2 and 4°C over ambient values during 4-day incubations. Ambient total primary production (TPP) exceeded total community respiration (
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1139-1154
Number of pages16
JournalEcosystems
Volume21
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 15 2017

Bibliographical note

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Acknowledgements: We would like to thank the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) for our participation in the monthly time series cruises off Gijón/Xixón of the RADIALES project. As well, we would like to thank all the staff of the R/V “Ramón Margalef” and R/V “Ángeles Alvariño,” for their assistance in collecting samples. We are especially grateful to Virginia Polonio and Lucie Buttay for their help during the experiments of August and October. This work was supported by the Gobierno vasco, through a Ph.D. scholarship to N. Arandia-Gorostidi and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) through funding of the time series project RADIALES of the IEO, the COMITE (Coastal Ocean Microbial plankton and Temperature) project (CTM-2010-15840), including a PhD scholarship (BES-2011-048573) to TM Huete-Stauffer, and a Postdoctoral Fellow to A. Calvo-Díaz (JCI-2012-14680).

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