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Biogeosciences Discuss., 6, 4361-4383, 2009
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Strain-specific responses of Emiliania huxleyi to changing seawater carbonate chemistry

G. Langer1,2, G. Nehrke2, I. Probert3, J. Ly1,2, and P. Ziveri1,4
1ICTA, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
2Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
3CNRS/UPMC, Station Biologique de Roscoff, 29682 Roscoff, France
4Earth Science Inst., FALW, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081HV, The Netherlands

Abstract. Four strains of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi (RCC1212, RCC1216, RCC1238, RCC1256) were grown in dilute batch culture at four CO2 levels ranging from ~200 μatm to ~1200 μatm. Growth rate, particulate organic carbon content, and particulate inorganic carbon content were measured, and organic and inorganic carbon production calculated. The four strains did not show a uniform response to carbonate chemistry changes in any of the analysed parameters and none of the four strains displayed a response pattern previously described for this species. We conclude that the sensitivity of different strains of E. huxleyi to acidification differs substantially and that this likely has a genetic basis. We propose that this can explain apparently contradictory results reported in the literature.

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Citation: Langer, G., Nehrke, G., Probert, I., Ly, J., and Ziveri, P.: Strain-specific responses of Emiliania huxleyi to changing seawater carbonate chemistry, Biogeosciences Discuss., 6, 4361-4383, doi:10.5194/bgd-6-4361-2009, 2009.   Bibtex   EndNote   Reference Manager    XML
 

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