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PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY
卷 128, 期 -, 页码 88-97出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2014.08.011
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- Spanish DYBAGA Project [MAR99-1039-C02-01]
Primary production of micro- (PPmicro), nano- (PPnano) and picophytoplankton (PPpico) in the NW Iberian margin were estimated by combining biomarker pigments to derive class-specific chlorophyll concentration and published class-specific photophysiological variables for large oceanic scales (Uitz et al., 2008). The accuracy of this approach was assessed comparing the predicted total primary production (PPp = -PPmicro + PPnano + PPpico) with the measured total primary production (PPm). Despite the general agreement, PPp, overestimated PPm when mixing in the water column was important. Therefore, the photophysiological variables originally derived from stratified and oligotrophic zones with strong influence of photoacclimation in the water column were re-evaluated to incorporate the particular conditions usually found in coastal upwelling systems, characterized by higher homogenization of the water column and lesser importance of photoacclimation. With this new fractionation we estimated the export capacity (f-ratio = new production) of the microbial plankton community, which can be assimilated to the fraction of primary production due to microphytoplankton. The NW Iberian margin showed f-ratios varying between the highest values recorded for coastal upwelling systems (f>0.75) and the low values usually found in oligotrophic oceanic areas (f<0.1). This size-fractionated primary production combined with phytoplankton size-fractionated biomass to obtain turnover rates allowed us to infer the existence of mixotrophy within nanophytoplankton. The occurrence of this type of nutrition was indirectly verified by comparing carbon fixation with estimates of gross primary production based on the metabolic theory of ecology. Realistic values of the photosynthetic quotient (PQ = 1.78 +/- 0.17; mol O-2 mol C-1) were only obtained when heterotrophic nutrition of nanophytoplankton was considered. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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