Photophysiological evidence of nutrient limitation of platelet ice algae in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 788-797

  Robinson, Dale H ^a   Arrigo, Kevin R ^a   Kolber, Zbigniew ^b   Gosselin, Michel ^c   Sullivan, Cornelius W ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Nutrient limitation; Photoacclimation; Pump probe fluorometry; Sea ice algae

Indexed keywords

MICROALGA; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO SOUND;

EID: 0031751490     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.1998.340788.x     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Arrigo, K. R., Dieckmann, G. S., Gosselin, M., Robinson, D. H., Fritsen, C. H. & Sullivan, C. W. 1995. High resolution study of the platelet ice ecosystem in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: biomass, nutrient, and production profiles within a dense microalgal bloom. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 127:255-68.
2. Arrigo, K. R., Robinson, D. H. & Sullivan, C. W. 1993. Vertical profiles of the bio-optical and photophysiological properties of sea ice microalgae within the platelet layer of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. J. Phycol. 98:173-85.
3. Arrigo, K. R. & Sullivan, C. W. 1994. A high resolution bio-optical model of microalgal growth: tests using sea-ice algal community time-series data. Limnol. Oceanogr. 29:609-31.
4. Arrigo, K. R., Sullivan, C. W. & Kremer, J. N. 1991. A bio-optical model of Antarctic sea ice. J. Geophys. Res. 96:10581-92.
5. Bannister, T. T. & Weidemann, A. D. 1984. The maximum quantum efficiency of phytoplankton photosynthesis. Limnol. Oceanogr. 19:1-12.
6. Boczar, B. A. & Palmisano, A. C. 1990. Photosynthetic pigments and pigment-proteins in natural populations of Antarctic sea-ice diatoms. Phycologia 29:470-7.
7. Bricaud, A. & Stramski, D. 1990. Spectral absorption coefficients of living phytoplankton and non-algal biogenous matter: a comparison between the Peru upwelling area and the Sargasso Sea. Limnol. Oreanogr. 25:157-9.
8. Bunt, J. S. 1968. Some characteristics of microalgae isolated from Antarctic sea ice. Antarct. Res. Ser. 11:1-14.
9. Bunt, J. S. & Lee, C. C. 1970. Seasonal primary production in Antarctic sea ice. J. Mar. Res. 28:304-20.
10. Butler, W. L. 1978. Energy distribution in the photochemical apparatus of photosynthesis. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. 29:345-78.
11. Cota, G. F. 1985. Photoadaptation of High Arctic ice algae. Nature (Lond.) 315:219-22.
12. Cota, G. F. & Smith, R. E. H. 1991. Ecology of bottom ice algae. III. Comparative physiology. J. Mar. Syst. 2:297-315.
13. Darley, W. M. & Volcani, B. E. 1971. Synchronized cultures: diatoms. Methods Enzymol. 23A:85-96.
14. Dayton, P. K., Rebilliard, G. A. & DeVries, A. L. 1969. Anchor ice formation in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, and its biological effects. Science 163:273-4.
15. Dieckmann, G. S., Arrigo, K. R. & Sullivan, C. W. 1992. A high resolution sampler for nutrient and chlorophyll a profiles in the sea ice platelet laver and underlying water column below fast ice in polar oceans: preliminary results. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 80:291-300.
16. Dubinsky, Z., Falkowski, P. G. & Wyman, K. 1986. Light harvesting and utilization by phytoplankton. Plant Cell Physiol. 27: 1335-49.
17. Falkowski, P. G. 1980. Light-shade adaptation in marine phytoplankton. In Falkowski, P. G. [Ed.] Primary Productivity in the Sea. Plenum Press, New York, pp. 99-119.
18. Falkowski, P. G., Greene, R. M. & Geider, R. J. 1992. Physiological limitations on phytoplankton productivity in the ocean. Oceanography 5:84-91.
19. Falkowski, P. G. & LaRoche, J. 1991. Acclimation to spectral irradiance in algae. J. Phycol. 27:8-14.
20. Geider, R. J., LaRoche, J., Greene, R. M. & Olaizola, M. 1993. Response of the photosynthetic apparatus of Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Bacillariophyceae) to nitrate, phosphate, or iron starvation. J. Phycol. 29:755-66.
21. Gosselin, M., Legendre, L., Therriault, J-C. & Demers, S. 1990. Light and nutrient limitation of sea-ice microalgae (Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic). J. Phycol. 26:220-32.
22. Grossi, S. M., Kottmeier, S. T., Moe, R. L., Taylor, G. T. & Sullivan, C. W. 1987. Sea ice microbial communities. VI. Growth and primary production in bottom ice under graded snow cover. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 35:153-64.
23. Harrison, P. J., Conway, H. L., Holmes, R. W. & Davis, C. O. 1977. Marine diatoms grown in chemostats under silicate or ammonium limitation. III. Chemical composition and morphology of Chaetoceros debilis, Skeletonema costatum, and Thalassiosira gravida. Mar. Biol. (Berl.) 43:19-31.
24. Kolber, Z., Wyman, K. D. & Falkowski, P. G. 1990. Natural variability in photosynthetic energy conversion efficiency: a field study in the Gulf of Maine. Limnol. Oceanogr. 35:72-9.
25. Kolber, Z., Zehr, J. & Falkowski, P. G. 1988. Effects of growth irradiance and nitrogen limitation on photosynthetic energy conversion in photosystem II. Plant Physiol. 88:923-9.
26. Lewis, M. R. & Smith, J. C. 1983. A small-volume, short-incubation time method for measurement of photosynthesis as a function of irradiance. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 13:99-102.
27. Ley, A. C. & Mauzerall, D. 1982. Absolute absorption cross sections for photosystem II and the minimum quantum requirement for photosynthesis in Chlorella vulgaris. Biochem. Biophys. Acta 680:95-106.
28. Lizotte, M. P., Robinson, D. H. & Sullivan, G. W. 1998. Algal pigment signatures in Antarctic sea ice. In Lizotte, M. P. & Arrigo, K. R. [Eds.] Antarctic Sea Ice: Biological Processes, Interactions and Variability. Antarctic Research Series. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., 73:93-106.
29. Lizotte, M. P. & Sullivan, G. W. 1992. Biochemical composition and photosynthate distribution in sea ice microalgae of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: evidence for nutrient stress during the spring bloom. Antarct. Sci. 4:23-30.
30. McConville, M. J., Mitchell, C. & Wetherbee, R. 1985. Patterns of carbon assimilation in a microalgal community from annual sea ice, East Antarctica. Polar Biol. 4:135-41.
31. Mitchell, B. G. & Kiefer, D. A. 1988. Chlorophyll a-specific absorption and fluorescence excitation spectra. Limnol. Oceanogr. 35:639-63.
32. Morel, A. & Bricaud, A. 1981. Theoretical results concerning light absorption in a discrete medium, an application to a specific absorption of phytoplankton. Deep-Sea Res. 28:1375-93.
33. Paasche, E. 1980. Silicon content of five marine plankton diatom species measured with a rapid filter method. Limnol. Oceanogr. 25:474-80.
34. Palmisano, A. C., Kottmeier, S. T., Moe, R. L. & Sullivan, C. W. 1985a. Sea ice microbial communities. IV. The effect of light perturbation on microalgae at the ice-seawater interface in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 21:37-45.
35. Palmisano, A. C., Lizotte, M. P., Smith, G. A., Nichols, P. D., White, D. C. & Sullivan, C. W. 1988. Changes in carbon assimilation in Antarctic sea-ice diatoms during spring bloom: variation in synthesis of lipid classes. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 116:1-13.
36. Palmisano, A. C., SooHoo, J. B., Moe, R. L. & Sullivan, C. W. 1987a. Sea ice microbial communities. VII. Changes in under-ice spectral irradiance during the development of Antarctic sea ice microalgal communities. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 35:165-73.
37. Palmisano, A. C., SooHoo, J. B. & Sullivan, C. W. 1985b. Photosynthesis-irradiance relationships in sea ice microalgae from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. J. Phycol. 21:341-6.
38. _ 1987b. Effects of four environmental variables on photosynthesis-irradiance relationships in Antarctic sea-ice microalgae. Mar. Biol. 94:299-306.
39. Palmisano, A. C. & Sullivan, C. W. 1985. Pathways of photosynthetic carbon assimilation in sea-ice microalgae from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Limnol. Oceanogr. 30:674-8.
40. Parsons, T. R., Maita, Y. & Lalli, C. M. 1984. A Manual of Chemical and Biological Methods for Seawater Analysis. Pergamon Press, Toronto, 173 pp.
41. Peters, E. & Thomas, D. N. 1996. Prolonged darkness and diatom mortality. I. Marine Antarctic species. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 207:25-41.
42. Platt, T., Gallegos, C. L. & Harrison, W. G. 1980. Photoinhibition of photosynthesis in natural assemblages of marine phytoplankton. J. Mar. Res. 38:686-701.
43. Raven, J. A. & Geider, R. J. 1988. Temperature and algal growth. New Phytol. 110:441-61.
44. Richardson, K., Beardall, J. & Raven, J. A. 1983. Adaptation of unicellular algae to irradiance: an analysis of strategies. New Phytol. 93:157-91.
45. Robinson, D. H., Arrigo, K. R., Iturriaga, R. & Sullivan, C. W. 1995. Microalgal light-harvesting in extreme low-light environments in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. J. Phycol. 31:508-20.
46. Smetacek, V., Scharek, R., Gordon, L. I., Eichen, H., Fuhrbach, E., Rohardt, G. & Moore, S. 1992. Early spring phytoplankton blooms in ice platelet layers on the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Deep-Sea Res. 39:153-68.
47. SooHoo, J. B., Palmisano, A. C., Kottmeier, S. T., Lizotte, M. P., SooHoo, S. L. & Sullivan, C. W. 1987. Spectral light absorption and quantum yield of photosynthesis in sea ice microalgae and a bloom of Phaeocystis pouchetii in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 39:175-89.
48. Stauber, J. L. & Jeffrey, S. W. 1988. Photosynthetic pigments in fifty-one species of diatoms. J. Phycol. 24:158-72.
49. Zimmerman, R. C., Beeler-SooHoo, J., Kremer, J. N. & D'Argenio, D. Z. 1987. Evaluation of variance approximation techniques for non-linear photosynthesis-irradiance models. Mar. Biol. (Berl.) 95:209-15.