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Li, He; Beardall, John; Gao, Kunshan (2023): Seawater carbonate chemistry and photoinhibition of the Picophytoplankter Synechococcus [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.961006

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Abstract:
The marine picocyanobacterium Synechococcus accounts for a major fraction of the primary production across the global oceans. However, knowledge of the responses of Synechococcus to changing pCO2 and light levels has been scarcely documented. Hence, we grew Synechococcus sp. CB0101 at two CO2 concentrations (ambient CO2 AC:410 μatm; high CO2 HC:1000 μatm) under various light levels between 25 and 800 μmol photons m−2 s−1 for 10–20 generations and found that the growth of Synechococcus strain CB0101 is strongly influenced by light intensity, peaking at 250 μmol m−2 s−1 and thereafter declined at higher light levels. Synechococcus cells showed a range of acclimation in their photophysiological characteristics, including changes in pigment content, optical absorption cross section, and light harvesting efficiency. Elevated pCO2 inhibited the growth of cells at light intensities close to or greater than saturation, with inhibition being greater under high light. Elevated pCO2 also reduced photosynthetic carbon fixation rates under high light but had smaller effects on the decrease in quantum yield and maximum relative electron transport rates observed under increasing light intensity. At the same time, the elevated pCO2 significantly decreased particulate organic carbon (POC) and particulate organic nitrogen (PON), particularly under low light. Ocean acidification, by increasing the inhibitory effects of high light, may affect the growth and competitiveness of Synechococcus in surface waters in the future scenario.
Keyword(s):
Bacteria; Biomass/Abundance/Elemental composition; Bottles or small containers/Aquaria (<20 L); Cyanobacteria; Growth/Morphology; Laboratory experiment; Laboratory strains; Light; Not applicable; Pelagos; Phytoplankton; Primary production/Photosynthesis; Single species; Synechococcus sp.
Supplement to:
Li, He; Beardall, John; Gao, Kunshan (2023): Photoinhibition of the Picophytoplankter Synechococcus Is Exacerbated by Ocean Acidification. Water, 15(6), 1228, https://doi.org/10.3390/w15061228
Documentation:
Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Epitalon, Jean-Marie; Lavigne, Héloïse; Orr, James (2019): seacarb: Seawater Carbonate Chemistry. R package version 3.2.15. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=seacarb
Comment:
In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2022) was used to compute a complete and consistent set of carbonate system variables, as described by Nisumaa et al. (2010). In this dataset the original values were archived in addition with the recalculated parameters (see related PI). The date of carbonate chemistry calculation by seacarb is 2023-07-19.
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
1Type of studyStudy typeGao, Kunshan
2SpeciesSpeciesGao, Kunshan
3TreatmentTreatGao, Kunshan
4ReplicateReplGao, Kunshan
5IrradianceEµmol/m2/sGao, Kunshan
6Growth rateµ1/dayGao, Kunshan
7Chlorophyll a per cellChl a/cellpg/#Gao, Kunshan
8Photosynthetic carbon fixation rate per cellC fix/cellfmol/#/hGao, Kunshan
9Photosynthetic carbon fixation rate, per chlorophyll aC fix/Chl aµg/µg/hGao, Kunshan
10Effective quantum yieldYGao, Kunshan
11Photosynthetic quantum efficiencyalphaGao, Kunshan
12Maximal electron transport rate, relativerETR maxGao, Kunshan
13Functional absorption cross sections of photosystem II reaction centersSigma PSIInm2Gao, Kunshanper cell
14ContributionContribution%Gao, Kunshanto a*, unkown
15ContributionContribution%Gao, Kunshanto a*, PE
16ContributionContribution%Gao, Kunshanto a*, PC
17ContributionContribution%Gao, Kunshanto a*, Chl a
18RatioRatioGao, KunshanChl a to phycobilins
19Particulate organic carbon, per cellPOC/cellpmol/#Gao, Kunshan
20Particulate organic nitrogen per cellPON/cellpmol/#Gao, Kunshan
21Carbon/Nitrogen ratioC/NGao, Kunshan
22SalinitySalGao, Kunshan
23Temperature, waterTemp°CGao, Kunshan
24Alkalinity, totalATµmol/lGao, Kunshan
25pHpHGao, KunshanNBS scale
26Carbonate system computation flagCSC flagYang, YanCalculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
27pHpHYang, YanCalculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)total scale
28Carbon dioxideCO2µmol/kgYang, YanCalculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
29Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)fCO2water_SST_wetµatmYang, YanCalculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
30Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)pCO2water_SST_wetµatmYang, YanCalculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
31Bicarbonate ion[HCO3]-µmol/kgYang, YanCalculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
32Carbonate ion[CO3]2-µmol/kgYang, YanCalculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
33Carbon, inorganic, dissolvedDICµmol/kgYang, YanCalculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
34Alkalinity, totalATµmol/kgYang, YanCalculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
35Aragonite saturation stateOmega ArgYang, YanCalculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
36Calcite saturation stateOmega CalYang, YanCalculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
1428 data points

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