Reversal in competitive dominance of a toxic versus non-toxic cyanobacterium in response to rising CO 2

ISME Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1438-1450

  Van De Waal, Dedmer B ^a,b,d   Verspagen, Jolanda M H ^a   Finke, Jan F ^a,e   Vournazou, Vasiliki ^a   Immers, Anne K ^a,b   Kardinaal, W Edwin A ^a,f   Tonk, Linda ^a,g   Becker, Sven ^b,h   Van Donk, Ellen ^b,c   Visser, Petra M ^a   Huisman, Jef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

competition model; harmful cyanobacteria; inorganic carbon; microcystin; Microcystis aeruginosa; resource competition

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FRESH WATER; MICROCYSTIN;

ALGAL BLOOM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYANOBACTERIUM; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; DOMINANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LIGHT EFFECT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MONOCULTURE; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PEPTIDE; PH; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE USE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUTROPHICATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCYSTIS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EUTROPHICATION; FRESH WATER; MICROCYSTINS; MICROCYSTIS;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 80052071222     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.28     Document Type: Article

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