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| Provedor de dados: |
ArchiMer
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| País: |
France
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| Título: |
Oligotrophication and emergence of picocyanobacteria and a toxic dinoflagellate in Thau lagoon, southern France
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| Autores: |
Collos, Yves
Bec, Beatrice
Jauzein, Cecile
Abadie, Eric
Laugier, Thierry
Lautier, Jacques
Pastoureaud, Annie
Souchu, Philippe
Vaquer, Andre
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| Data: |
2009
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| Ano: |
2009
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| Palavras-chave: |
Skeletonema costatum
Alexandrium catenella
Picocyanobacteria
Oligotrophication
Long term variability
Thau lagoon
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| Resumo: |
Time series data have been examined in Thau lagoon (Southern France) from 1972 to 2006 for water temperature, salinity, nutrients and from 1987 to 2006 for phytoplankton. A first main trend identified is an increase in mean annual water temperature (1.5 degrees C over 33 years or 0.045 degrees C/year) that was not evenly distributed among seasons. The highest rate of increase was in the spring (+ 3.0 degrees C over 33 years), followed by summer (+ 2.0 degrees C and fall (+ 1.7 degrees C. In winter, no significant increase over the 33 year period could be found. A second clear trend is a large decrease in soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP) concentration over the same 33 year period (summer values decreased from 10 mu M to 1 mu M. while winter values decreased from 3 mu M to undetectable at present). Nitrate concentrations depended mainly on rainfall events and watershed runoff. Ammonium data were too fragmentary to be useful. N/P ratios expressed the traditional way of DIN/SRP cannot be used for phytoplankton that are not strict autotrophs. The recent and almost simultaneous appearance of both picocyanobacteria (mostly Synechococcus) and the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella in Thau seem to be related to reduced nutrient loading and the increase in water temperature. A. catenella blooms occur either in the spring or the fall when water temperature is near 20 degrees C and remains so for several weeks with winds speeds below 2-3 m s(-1). Picocyanobacterial growth is stimulated by increased summer temperatures, and lowered SRP levels provide picocyanobacteria an ecological advantage over other phytoplankton classes, in particular diatoms such as Skeletonema costatum whose cell densities have decreased over the last 8 years in summer and fall, but not in winter. An hypothesis is presented according to which A. catenella is not stimulated by increased temperatures, but is able to use picocyanobacteria for growth, and this provides this organism an additional resource over other strictly autotrophic phytoplankton. On a more general level, our data do not support the hypothesis that increased nutrient loading leads to harmful blooms of dinoflagellates. Instead, a combination of habitat disturbance and species displacement seems to lead to such blooms. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Text
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2009/publication-6420.pdf
DOI:10.1016/j.seares.2008.05.008
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| Editor: |
Elsevier
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| Relação: |
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/6420/
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| Formato: |
application/pdf
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| Fonte: |
Journal of Sea Research (1385-1101) (Elsevier), 2009 , Vol. 61 , N. 1-2 , P. 68-75
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| Direitos: |
2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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