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Bloom and decline of the toxic flagellate Chattonella marina in a Swedish fjord
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Waite, A. M. (author)
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- Lindahl, Odd (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för marin ekologi,Department of Marine Ecology
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(creator_code:org_t)
- 2006
- 2006
- English.
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In: Marine Ecology-Progress Series. - 0171-8630. ; 326, s. 77-83
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- During March 2001, after a spring diatom bloom, the toxic flagellate Chattonella marina bloomed in surface waters of the Gullmar fjord, Sweden, to cell concentrations of 1 to 2 x 10(3) ml(-1), with a strong subsurface maximum (similar to 2 to 5 m). While the diatoms' isotopic composition indicated a preference for nitrate as an N source, the flagellate seemed to utilize a higher fraction of recycled nutrients (ammonium) when nitrate was severely depleted by the diatoms, allowing it to remain in surface waters once the diatoms sank from the surface. C. marina had production rates of similar to 20 mg C m(-3) h(-1) and turnover rates of 2 to 5 d(-1). The size distribution shifted from larger to smaller cells by the end of the bloom, and the total carbon that C. marina contributed to the system was about 1000 mg C m(-2). Concurrently, heterotrophic dinoflagellates (especially Peridinella danica) grew to a total biomass of 1500 mg C m(-2), and had a net growth rate of 0.06 d(-1). Our results suggest that heterotrophic dinoflagellates had the capacity to be primary grazers of C. marina, and could have easily accounted for the decline of the C. marina bloom in surface waters. Both C. marina and the heterotrophic dinoflagellates made a measurable but small (20 to 40 mg C m(-2)) contribution to sedimented carbon.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Ekologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Ecology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- algal bloom
- chattonella marina
- peridiniella danica
- heterotrophic dinoflagellates
- grazing
- nutrients
- dinoflagellate heterocapsa-triquetra
- tropical north pacific
- red-tide
- heterotrophic dinoflagellate
- antiqua
- raphidophyceae
- waters
- alga
- sea
- harmful
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- art (subject category)
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