ArticleBMC ecology2015
Effects of elevated temperature and CO2 on intertidal microphytobenthos.
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- Benthic Microalgae Respond More Strongly to Warming and Salinity Than Zooplankton.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Simulated heatwave alters intertidal estuary greenhouse gas fluxes.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Microplastics primarily provide habitats for benthic microalgae in Fujian coastal waters of China.iScience · 2025Article
- Temperature and nutrients alter the relative importance of stochastic and deterministic processes in the coastal macroinvertebrates biodiversity assembly on long-time scales.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Prevalence and Photobiology of Photosynthetic Dinoflagellate Endosymbionts in the NudibranchAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Assessing biomass and primary production of microphytobenthos in depositional coastal systems using spectral information.PloS one · 2021Article
- In-situ behavioural and physiological responses of Antarctic microphytobenthos to ocean acidification.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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- Temperature Driven Changes in Benthic Bacterial Diversity Influences Biogeochemical Cycling in Coastal Sediments.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
- Inorganic carbon availability in benthic diatom communities: photosynthesis and migration.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Marine Microbial Gene Abundance and Community Composition in Response to Ocean Acidification and Elevated Temperature in Two Contrasting Coastal Marine Sediments.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
- Photosynthesis in estuarine intertidal microphytobenthos is limited by inorganic carbon availability.Photosynthesis research · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundMicrophytobenthos (MPB) are the main primary producers of many intertidal and shallow subtidal environments. Although these coastal ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic activities, little is known on the effects of climate change variables on the structure and productivity of MPB communities. In this study, the effects of elevated temperature and CO2 on intertidal MPB biomass, species composition and photosynthetic performance were studied using a flow-through experimental life support system.
resultsElevated temperature had a detrimental effect on MPB biomass and photosynthetic performance under both control and elevated CO2. Furthermore, elevated temperature led to an increase of cyanobacteria and a change in the relative abundance of major benthic diatom species present in the MPB community. The most abundant motile epipelic species Navicula spartinetensis and Gyrosigma acuminatum were in part replaced by tychoplanktonic species (Minidiscus chilensis and Thalassiosira cf. pseudonana) and the motile epipelic Nitzschia cf. aequorea and N. cf. aurariae. Elevated CO2 had a beneficial effect on MPB biomass, but only at the lower temperature. It is possible that elevated CO2 alleviated local depletion of dissolved inorganic carbon resulting from high cell abundance at the sediment photic layer. No significant effect of elevated CO2 was detected on the relative abundance of major groups of microalgae and benthic diatom species.
conclusionsThe interactive effects of elevated temperature and CO2 may have an overall detrimental impact on the structure and productivity of intertidal MPB, and eventually in related ecosystem services.
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