Top-down, bottom-up and physical controls on diatom-diazotroph assemblage growth in the Amazon River plume

Biogeosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3259-3278

  Stukel, M R ^a   Coles, V J ^a   Brooks, M T ^a   Hood, R R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIATOM; GROWTH RATE; NICHE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANKTON; RIVER FLOW; SALINITY; SILICA; WATER QUALITY;

AMAZON RIVER; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84903131075     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-11-3259-2014     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Ammerman, J.W., Hood, R. R., Case, D. A., and Cotner, J. B.: Phosphorus deficiency in the Atlantic: An emerging paradigm in oceanography, EOS, Transactions, Am. Geophys. Union, 84, 165-170, 2003.
2. Aumont, O., Maier-Reimer, E., Blain, S., and Monfray, P.: An ecosystem model of the global ocean including Fe, Si, P colimitations, Global Biogeochem. Cy., 17, 1060, doi:10.1029/2001gb001745, 2003.
3. Breitbarth, E., Oschlies, A., and LaRoche, J.: Physiological constraints on the global distribution of Trichodesmium-effect of temperature on diazotrophy, Biogeosciences, 4, 53-61, doi:10.5194/bg-4-53-2007, 2007. (Pubitemid 46129288)
4. Calbet, A.: Mesozooplankton grazing effect on primary production: A global comparative analysis in marine ecosystems, Limnol. Oceanogr., 46, 1824-1830, 2001. (Pubitemid 33066083)
5. Calbet, A. and Landry, M. R.: Phytoplankton growth, microzooplankton grazing, and carbon cycling in marine systems, Limnol. Oceanogr., 49, 51-57, 2004. (Pubitemid 38154285)
6. Calbet, A., Atienza, D., Henriksen, C. I., Saiz, E., and Adey, T. R.: Zooplankton grazing in the Atlantic Ocean: A latitudinal study, Deep-Sea Res. Part II-Top, Stud. Oceanogr., 56, 954-963, 2009.
7. Capone, D. G., Burns, J. A., Montoya, J. P., Subramaniam, A., Mahaffey, C., Gunderson, T., Michaels, A. F., and Carpenter, E. J.: Nitrogen fixation by Trichodesmium spp.: An important source of new nitrogen to the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic Ocean, Global Biogeochem. Cy., 19, GB2024, doi:10.1029/2004gb002331, 2005. (Pubitemid 41576423)
8. Carpenter, E. J., Montoya, J. P., Burns, J., Mulholland, M. R., Subramaniam, A., and Capone, D. G.: Extensive bloom of a N-2-fixing diatom/cyanobacterial association in the tropical Atlantic Ocean, Mar. Ecol.-Prog. Ser., 185, 273-283, 1999. (Pubitemid 29429170)
9. Coles, V. J. and Hood, R. R.: Modeling the impact of iron and phosphorus limitations on nitrogen fixation in the Atlantic Ocean, Biogeosciences, 4, 455-479, doi:10.5194/bg-4-455-2007, 2007. (Pubitemid 47151113)
10. Coles, V. J., Brooks, M. T., Hopkins, J., Stukel, M. R., Yager, P. L., and Hood, R. R.: The pathways and properties of the Amazon River Plume in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 118, 6894-6913, 2013.
11. Cooley, S. R. and Yager, P. L.: Physical and biological contributions to the western tropical North Atlantic Ocean carbon sink formed by the Amazon River plume, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 111, C08018, doi:10.1029/2005jc002954, 2006.
12. Davenport, R., Neuer, S., Helmke, P., Perez-Marrero, J., and Llinas, O.: Primary productivity in the northern Canary Islands region as inferred from SeaWiFS imagery, Deep-Sea Res. Part II-Top. Stud. Oceanogr., 49, 3481-3496, 2002.
13. Davey, M., Tarran, G. A., Mills, M. M., Ridame, C., Geider, R. J., and LaRoche, J.: Nutrient limitation of picophytoplankton photosynthesis and growth in the tropical North Atlantic, Limnol. Oceanogr., 53, 1722-1733, 2008.
14. Dekaezemacker, J. and Bonnet, S.: Sensitivity of N2 fixation to combined nitrogen forms (NO? 3 and NH+ 4 ) in two strains of the marine diazotroph Crocosphaera watsonii (Cyanobacteria), Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 438, 33-46, 2011.
15. Falcon, L. I., Carpenter, E. J., Cipriano, F., Bergman, B., and Capone, D. G.: N-2 fixation by unicellular bacterioplankton from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans: Phylogeny and in situ rates, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 70, 765-770, 2004. (Pubitemid 38568197)
16. Fasham, M. J. R., Ducklow, H.W., and McKelvie, S. M.: A Nitrogen-Based Model of Plankton Dynamics in the Oceanic Mixed Layer, J. Mar. Res., 48, 591-639, 1990.
17. Fernandez, A., Mourino-Carballido, B., Bode, A., Varela, M., and Maranon, E.: Latitudinal distribution of Trichodesmium spp. and N2 fixation in the Atlantic Ocean, Biogeosciences, 7, 3167-3176, doi:10.5194/bg-7-3167-2010, 2010.
18. Foster, R. A. and O'Mullan, G. D.: Nitrogen-fixing and nitrifying symbioses in the marine environment, in: Nitrogen in the Marine Environment, 2nd Edn., edited by: Capone, D. G., Bronk, D. A., Mulholland, M. R., and Carpenter, E. J., Academic Press, Burlington, MA, 2008.
19. Foster, R. A., Kuypers, M. M., Vagner, T., Paerl, R.W., Musat, N., and Zehr, J. P.: Nitrogen fixation and transfer in open ocean diatom-cyanobacterial symbioses, Isme J., 5, 1484-1493, 2011.
20. Halliwell, G. and Garraffo, Z.: Synthetic floats, drifters, and moorings in HYCOM: http://hycom.org/attachments/067-float. pdf (last access: 18 April 2013), 2002.
21. Hood, R. R., Bates, N. R., Capone, D. G., and Olson, D. B.: Modeling the effect of nitrogen fixation on carbon and nitrogen fluxes at BATS, Deep-Sea Res. II, 48, 1609-1648, 2001. (Pubitemid 32434569)
22. Hood, R. R., Coles, V. J., and Capone, D. G.: Modeling the distribution of Trichodesmium and nitrogen fixation in the Atlantic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 109, C06006, doi:10.1029/2002jc001753, 2004. (Pubitemid 39174558)
23. Hu, C. M., Montgomery, E. T., Schmitt, R.W., and Muller-Karger, F. E.: The dispersal of the Amazon and Orinoco River water in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea: Observation from space and S-PALACE floats, Deep-Sea Res. Part II-Top. Stud. Oceanogr., 51, 1151-1171, 2004. (Pubitemid 39526917)
24. Huskin, I., Anadon, R., Woodd-Walker, R. S., and Harris, R. P.: Basin-scale latitudinal patterns of copepod grazing in the Atlantic Ocean, J. Plankton Res., 23, 1361-1371, 2001. (Pubitemid 34034392)
25. Isla, J. A., Llope, M., and Anadon, R.: Size-fractionated mesozooplankton biomass, metabolism and grazing along a 50 degrees N-30 degrees S transect of the Atlantic Ocean, J. Plankton Res., 26, 1301-1313, 2004. (Pubitemid 39538770)
26. Kemp, A. E. S. and Villareal, T. A.: High diatom production and export in stratified waters-A potential negative feedback to global warming, Prog. Oceanogr., 119, 4-23, 2013.
27. Lopez, E. and Anadon, R.: Copepod communities along an Atlantic Meridional Transect: Abundance, size structure, and grazing rates, Deep-Sea Res. Part I-Oceanogr. Res. Pap., 55, 1375-1391, 2008.
28. Luo, Y.-W., Doney, S. C., Anderson, L. A., Benavides, M., Berman-Frank, I., Bode, A., Bonnet, S., Boström, K. H., Böttjer, D., Capone, D. G., Carpenter, E. J., Chen, Y. L., Church, M. J., Dore, J. E., Falcón, L. I., Fernández, A., Foster, R. A., Furuya, K., Gómez, F., Gundersen, K., Hynes, A. M., Karl, D. M., Kitajima, S., Langlois, R. J., LaRoche, J., Letelier, R. M., Marañón, E., McGillicuddy Jr., D. J., Moisander, P. H., Moore, C. M., Mouriño-Carballido, B., Mulholland, M. R., Needoba, J. A., Orcutt, K. M., Poulton, A. J., Rahav, E., Raimbault, P., Rees, A. P., Riemann, L., Shiozaki, T., Subramaniam, A., Tyrrell, T., Turk-Kubo, K. A., Varela, M., Villareal, T. A., Webb, E. A., White, A. E., Wu, J., and Zehr, J. P.: Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 4, 47-73, doi:10.5194/essd-4-47-2012, 2012.
29. Marañon, E., Perez, V., Fernandez, E., Anadon, R., Bode, A., Gonzalez, N., Huskin, I., Isla, A., Moran, X. A. G., Mourino, B., Quevedo, M., Robinson, C., Serret, P., Teira, E., Varela, M. M., Woodward, E. M. S., and Zubkov, M. V.: Planktonic carbon budget in the eastern subtropical North Atlantic, Aquat. Microb. Ecol., 48, 261-275, 2007. (Pubitemid 351525802)
30. Mills, M. M., Ridame, C., Davey, M., La Roche, J., and Geider, R. J.: Iron and phosphorus co-limit nitrogen fixation in the eastern tropical North Atlantic, Nature, 429, 292-294, 2004. (Pubitemid 38684813)
31. Monteiro, F. M., Follows, M. J., and Dutkiewicz, S.: Distribution of diverse nitrogen fixers in the global ocean, Global Biogeochem. Cy., 24, 16, Gb3017 doi:10.1029/2009gb003731, 2010.
32. Montoya, J. P., Voss, M., and Capone, D. G.: Spatial variation in N2-fixation rate and diazotroph activity in the Tropical Atlantic, Biogeosciences, 4, 369-376, doi:10.5194/bg-4-369-2007, 2007. (Pubitemid 46986255)
33. Moore, C. M., Mills, M. M., Langlois, R., Milne, A., Achterberg, E. P., La Roche, J., and Geider, R. J.: Relative influence of nitrogen and phosphorus availability on phytoplankton physiology and productivity in the oligotrophic sub-tropical North Atlantic Ocean, Limnol. Oceanogr., 53, 291-305, 2008. (Pubitemid 351186029)
34. Moore, C. M., Mills, M. M., Achterberg, E. P., Geider, R. J., LaRoche, J., Lucas, M. I., McDonagh, E. L., Pan, X., Poulton, A. J., Rijkenberg, M. J. A., Suggett, D. J., Ussher, S. J., and Woodward, E. M. S.: Large-scale distribution of Atlantic nitrogen fixation controlled by iron availability, Nat. Geosci., 2, 867-871, 2009.
35. Moore, C. M., Mills, M. M., Arrigo, K. R., Berman-Frank, I., Bopp, L., Boyd, P.W., Galbraith, E. D., Geider, R. J., Guieu, C., Jaccard, S. L., Jickells, T. D., La Roche, J., Lenton, T. M., Mahowald, N. M., Maranon, E., Marinov, I., Moore, J. K., Nakatsuka, T., Oschlies, A., Saito, M. A., Thingstad, T. F., Tsuda, A., and Ulloa, O.: Processes and patterns of oceanic nutrient limitation, Nat. Geosci., 6, 701-710, 2013.
36. Moore, J. K., Doney, S. C., Kleypas, J. A., Glover, D. M., and Fung, I. Y.: An intermediate complexity marine ecosystem model for the global domain, Deep-Sea Res. Part II-Top. Stud. Oceanogr., 49, 403-462, 2002. (Pubitemid 34045582)
37. Moore, J. K., Doney, S. C., Lindsay, K., Mahowald, N., and Michaels, A. F.: Nitrogen fixation amplifies the ocean biogeochemical response to decadal timescale variations in mineral dust deposition, Tellus Ser. B-Chem. Phys. Meteorol., 58, 560-572, 2006. (Pubitemid 44575828)
38. Neuer, S., Freudenthal, T., Davenport, R., Llinas, O., and Rueda, M. J.: Seasonality of surface water properties and particle flux along a productivity gradient off NW Africa, Deep-Sea Res. Part II-Top. Stud. Oceanogr., 49, 3561-3576, 2002.
39. Perez, V., Fernandez, E., Maranon, E., Serret, P., Varela, R., Bode, A., Varela, M., Varela, M. M., Moran, X. A. G., Woodward, E. M. S., Kitidis, V., and Garcia-Soto, C.: Latitudinal distribution of microbial plankton abundance, production, and respiration in the Equatorial Atlantic in Autumn 2000, Deep-Sea Res. Part IOceanogr. Res. Pap., 52, 861-880, 2005. (Pubitemid 40406326)
40. Perez, V., Fernandez, E., Maranon, E., Moran, X. A. G., and Zubkovc, M. V.: Vertical distribution of phytoplankton biomass, production and growth in the Atlantic subtropical gyres, Deep-Sea Res. Part I-Oceanogr. Res. Pap., 53, 1616-1634, 2006. (Pubitemid 44755263)
41. Perry, G. D., Duffy, P. B., and Miller, N. L.: An extended data set of river discharges for validation of general circulation models, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 101, 21339-21349, 10.1029/96jd00932, 1996.
42. Poulton, A. J., Holligan, P. M., Hickman, A., Kim, Y. N., Adey, T. R., Stinchcombe, M. C., Holeton, C., Root, S., andWoodward, E. M. S.: Phytoplankton carbon fixation, chlorophyll-biomass and diagnostic pigments in the Atlantic Ocean, Deep-Sea Res. II, 53, 1593-1610, 2006. (Pubitemid 44374346)
43. Quevedo, M. and Anadón, R.: Protist control of phytoplankton growth in the subtropical north-east Atlantic, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 221, 29-38, 2001. (Pubitemid 33072738)
44. Rijkenberg, M. J. A., Langlois, R. J., Mills, M. M., Patey, M. D., Hill, P. G., Nielsdottir, M. C., Compton, T. J., LaRoche, J., and Achterberg, E. P.: Environmental Forcing of Nitrogen Fixation in the Eastern Tropical and Sub-Tropical North Atlantic Ocean, PLoS One, 6, e28989 doi:10.1371/journal.pone. 0028989, 2011.
45. Steele, M., Morley, R., and Ermold,W.: PHC: A Global Ocean Hydrography with a High-Quality Arctic Ocean, J. Climate, 14, 2079-2087, 2001. (Pubitemid 33045339)
46. Stock, C. and Dunne, J.: Controls on the ratio of mesozooplankton production to primary production in marine ecosystems, Deep-Sea Res. I, 57, 95-112, 2010.
47. Subramaniam, A., Yager, P. L., Carpenter, E. J., Mahaffey, C., Bjorkman, K., Cooley, S., Kustka, A. B., Montoya, J. P., Sanudo-Wilhelmy, S. A., Shipe, R., and Capone, D. G.: Amazon River enhances diazotrophy and carbon sequestration in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105, 10460-10465, 2008.
48. Teira, E., Mourino, B., Maranon, E., Perez, V., Pazo, M. J., Serret, P., de Armas, D., Escanez, J., Woodward, E. M. S., and Fernandez, E.: Variability of chlorophyll and primary production in the Eastern North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre: potential factors affecting phytoplankton activity, Deep-Sea Res. Part I-Oceanogr. Res. Pap., 52, 569-588, 2005. (Pubitemid 40307060)
49. Tilstone, G., Smyth, T., Poulton, A., and Hutson, R.: Measured and remotely sensed estimates of primary production in the Atlantic Ocean from 1998 to 2005, Deep-Sea Res. Part II-Top. Stud. Oceanogr., 56, 918-930, 2009.
50. Turk, K. A., Rees, A. P., Zehr, J. P., Pereira, N., Swift, P., Shelley, R., Lohan, M., Woodward, E. M. S., and Gilbert, J.: Nitrogen fixation and nitrogenase (nifH) expression in tropical waters of the eastern North Atlantic, Isme J., 5, 1201-1212, 2011.
51. Villareal, T. A.: Laboratory culture and preliminary characterization of the nitrogen-fixing Rhizosolenia-Richelia symbiosis,Mar. Ecol., 11, 117-132, 1990.
52. Ye, Y., Volker, C., Bracher, A., Taylor, B., and Wolf-Gladrow, D. A.: Environmental controls on N-2 fixation by Trichodesmium in the tropical eastern North Atlantic Ocean-A model-based study, Deep-Sea Res. Part I-Oceanogr. Res. Pap., 64, 104-117, 2012.
53. Yoshikawa, C., Coles, V. J., Hood, R. R., Capone, D. G., and Yoshida, N.: Modeling how surface nitrogen fixation influences subsurface nutrient patterns in the North Atlantic, J. Geophys. Res.,Oceans, 118, 2520-2534, 2013.