Acidification, not carbonation, is the major regulator of carbon fluxes in the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi

New Phytologist

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 126-137

  Kottmeier, Dorothee M ^a   Rokitta, Sebastian D ^a   Rost, Björn ^a  

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

Author keywords

pH; Calcification; CO2 concentrating mechanism; Life cycle stages; Membrane inlet mass spectrometry; Ocean acidification; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; CALCIFICATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CARBONATE; COCCOLITH; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; INHIBITION; LIFE CYCLE; PH; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EMILIANIA HUXLEYI;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; HAPTOPHYTA; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PH; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATES; HAPTOPHYTA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIGHT; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 84959421602     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13885     Document Type: Article

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