Climate-induced shifts in an experimental phytoplankton community: a mechanistic approach

By L. S. Senerpont Domis, Wolf M. Mooij, J. Huisman. Hydrobiologia, 2007

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Climate change is likely to have far-reaching effects on biotic interactions in aquatic ecosystems. We investigated the effect of different spring warming scenarios on the succession of three algal groups (cyanobacteria, diatoms and green algae) in 10-l microcosms. We fitted these microcosm data to a simple mechanistic model to estimate the effect of different climate warming scenarios on the population dynamics of these algal functional groups. Experimental and model results indicate that the different algal functional groups respond differently to climate warming under phosphorus-limited conditions. Whereas the successional sequence, from diatoms to green algae to cyanobacteria, was not affected by the different climate warming scenarios, cyanobacteria showed a stronger response to the different climate warming scenarios than diatoms or green algae. Both the growth rates and peak abundances of cyanobacteria were significantly higher in the average and warm spring scenarios than in the cold spring scenario. Our findings illustrate that integration of models and microcosm experiments are a useful approach in predicting the impacts of rising temperatures on the dynamics of phytoplankton communities.

Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Environmental Chemistry

1. Hans W. Paerl
2. J. Huisman
3. P. Visser
4. V. Huszar
5. S. Kosten
6. M. Lürling
7. Fassil Eshetu
8. E. Faassen

In Oceanography

1. Hans W. Paerl
2. J. Huisman
3. P. Visser
4. V. Huszar
5. S. Kosten
6. M. Lürling
7. Fassil Eshetu
8. E. Faassen

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Hans W. Paerl
2. P. Visser
3. J. Huisman
4. S. Kosten
5. M. Lürling
6. Nico Salmaso
7. J. Alex Elliott

Citations in the corpus

• Climate change: a catalyst for global expansion of harmful cyanobacterial blooms. (2009, background): “At these elevated temperatures, cyanobacteria compete most effectively with eukaryotic primary producers, such as diatoms, chlorophytes, cryptophytes and dinoflagellates (Elliott et al., 2006; De Senerpont Domis et al., 2007; Jöhnk et al., 2008).”
• Comparison of cyanobacterial and green algal growth rates at different temperatures (2013, background): “In laboratory experiments, chlorophyte growth rates were higher than cyanobacterial growth rates at all tested scenarios (de Senerpont Domis et al., 2007).”
• Summer heatwaves promote blooms of harmful cyanobacteria (2008, background): “…scenarios may shift the timing of the phytoplankton spring bloom (Edwards & Richardson, 2004; Winder & Schindler, 2004; Peeters et al., 2007b), and will lead to changes in phytoplankton species composition and phytoplankton diversity (Elliott et al., 2005; De Senerpont Domis et al., 2007).”
• Mesocosm Experiments as a Tool for Ecological Climate-Change Research (2013, background): “169Mesocosm Experiments as a Tool for Ecological Climate-Change Research de Senerpont Domis, L.N., Mooij, W.M., Huisman, J., 2007.”