期刊
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
卷 381, 期 2, 页码 98-104出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2009.09.013
关键词
Desiccation; Microphytobenthos; Photosynthetic activity; Productive biomass; Specular reflectance
资金
- FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/23720/2005, POCI/BIA-BDE/61977/2004]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [POCI/BIA-BDE/61977/2004, SFRH/BD/23720/2005] Funding Source: FCT
Due to the periodic exposure to air during periods of low tide, desiccation can be expected to cause important limiting effects on the photosynthetic activity of intertidal microphytobenthos biofilms. This work addresses the study of the short-term effects of desiccation on microphytobenthos using a new, simple methodological approach to non-destructively estimate the water content of muddy intertidal sediments. The method is based on the non-destructive measurement of the specular reflectance in the visible spectral region, shown to be linearly related to the water content of the uppermost 200 mu m of the sediment. During air exposure, water loss by the surface sediment layers was shown to induce marked decreases in both the photosynthetic activity, as measured by the maximum quantum yield of photosystem II, F-v/F-m, and the surface microalgal biomass, as estimated from the diffusive reflectance biomass index NDVI. The effects of desiccation were largely dependent on the rate of sediment de-watering. For a same level of desiccation, samples under fast desiccation (exposed to wind of 4.2 m s(-1)) showed much larger effects on F-v/F-m and NDVI comparatively to samples under slow desiccation (maintained under still air). By showing the rapid and significant effects of desiccation on microphytobenthos biofilm functioning, the results of this study have potentially important implications for the modelling of primary productivity of estuarine intertidal areas, as desiccation and factors inducing it may result in previously unaccounted effects on photosynthetic performance and productive biomass. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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