ArticleOecologia2015
CO₂ alters community composition and response to nutrient enrichment of freshwater phytoplankton.
Article in Oecologia, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Enhanced Rock Weathering for Carbon Removal-Monitoring and Mitigating Potential Environmental Impacts on Agricultural Land.Environmental science & technology · 2024Review
- Ecosystem-level effects of re-oligotrophication and N:P imbalances in rivers and estuaries on a global scale.Global change biology · 2023Review
- Interactive effects of precipitation and nitrogen enrichment on multi-trophic dynamics in plant-arthropod communities.PloS one · 2018Article
- Cyanobacteria vs green algae: which group has the edge?Journal of experimental botany · 2017Article
- Competition between cyanobacteria and green algae at low versus elevated CO2: who will win, and why?Journal of experimental botany · 2017Article
- Response of microalgae to elevated CO2 and temperature: impact of climate change on freshwater ecosystems.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2016Article
- Communities that thrive in extreme conditions captured from a freshwater lake.Biology letters · 2016Article
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Abstract
Nutrients can limit the productivity of ecosystems and control the composition of the communities of organisms that inhabit them. Humans are causing atmospheric CO2 concentrations to reach levels higher than those of the past millions of years while at the same time propagating eutrophication through the addition of nutrients to lakes and rivers. We studied the effect of elevated CO2 concentrations, nutrient addition and their interaction in a series of freshwater mesocosm experiments using a factorial design. Our results highlight the important role of CO2 in shaping phytoplankton communities and their response to nutrient addition. We found that CO2 greatly magnified the increase in phytoplankton growth caused by the increased availability of nutrients. Elevated CO2 also caused changes in phytoplankton community composition. As predicted from physiology and laboratory experiments, the taxonomic group that was most limited by current day CO2 concentrations, chlorophytes, increased in relative frequency at elevated CO2. This predictable change in community composition with changes in CO2 is not altered by changes in the availability of other nutrients.
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