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Unusual Hemiaulus bloom influences ocean productivity in Northeastern US Shelf waters
| العنوان: | Unusual Hemiaulus bloom influences ocean productivity in Northeastern US Shelf waters |
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| المؤلفون: | S. A. Castillo Cieza, R. H. R. Stanley, P. Marrec, D. N. Fontaine, E. T. Crockford, D. J. McGillicuddy Jr., A. Mehta, S. Menden-Deuer, E. E. Peacock, T. A. Rynearson, Z. O. Sandwith, W. Zhang, H. M. Sosik |
| المصدر: | Biogeosciences, Vol 21, Pp 1235-1257 (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | Copernicus Publications, 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Ecology LCC:Life LCC:Geology |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Ecology, QH540-549.5, Life, QH501-531, Geology, QE1-996.5 |
| الوصف: | Because of its temperate location, high dynamic range of environmental conditions, and extensive human activity, the long-term ecological research site in the coastal Northeastern US Shelf (NES) of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean offers an ideal opportunity to understand how productivity shifts in response to changes in planktonic community composition. Ocean production and trophic transfer rates, including net community production (NCP), net primary production (NPP), gross oxygen production (GOP), and microzooplankton grazing rates, are key metrics for understanding marine ecosystem dynamics and associated impacts on biogeochemical cycles. Although small phytoplankton usually dominate phytoplankton community composition and Chl a concentration in the NES waters during the summer, in August 2019, a bloom of the large diatom genus Hemiaulus, with N2-fixing symbionts, was observed in the mid-shelf region. NCP was 2.5 to 9 times higher when Hemiaulus dominated phytoplankton carbon compared to NCP throughout the same geographic area during the summers of 2020–2022. The Hemiaulus bloom in summer 2019 also coincided with higher trophic transfer efficiency from phytoplankton to microzooplankton and higher GOP and NPP than in the summers 2020–2022. This study suggests that the dominance of an atypical phytoplankton community that alters the typical size distribution of primary producers can significantly influence productivity and trophic transfer, highlighting the dynamic nature of the coastal ocean. Notably, summer 2018 NCP levels were also high, although the size distribution of Chl a was typical and an atypical phytoplankton community was not observed. A better understanding of the dynamics of the NES in terms of biological productivity is of primary importance, especially in the context of changing environmental conditions due to climate processes. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1726-4170 1726-4189 |
| Relation: | https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/1235/2024/bg-21-1235-2024.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/1726-4170; https://doaj.org/toc/1726-4189 |
| DOI: | 10.5194/bg-21-1235-2024 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/04e0fd532d58495c84307338cecfeca6 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.04e0fd532d58495c84307338cecfeca6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 17264170 17264189 |
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| DOI: | 10.5194/bg-21-1235-2024 |