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MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES
卷 525, 期 -, 页码 81-95出版社
INTER-RESEARCH
DOI: 10.3354/meps11190
关键词
Hydrodynamics; Understorey-canopy interactions; Seawater pH; Coralline algae; Boundary layers; Ocean acidification
资金
- University of Otago
- Royal Society of New Zealand [UOO0914]
- Performance Based Research Fund from the Department of Botany, University of Otago
Understorey macroalgae can alter pH at their surface via metabolic activity within the concentration boundary layer (CBL), but it is unknown to what degree the presence of larger macroalgal canopies can modify the pH micro-environment of understorey species. We examined whether flow reduction by a canopy-forming macroalga could alter the thickness of the CBL at the surface of understorey crustose coralline macroalgae (CCA). This could lead to a greater metabolic influence of macroalgae on the pH and oxygen environment at the coralline's surface. Three experimental treatments were examined in a re-circulating flume: (1) a full canopy (consisting of Carpophyllum maschalocarpum) and understorey (Corallina officinalis and CCA), (2) a mimic (plastic/silk) canopy plus understorey, and (3) an understorey only. Profiles of seawater velocity and pH/O-2 concentration gradients were measured at 3 bulk seawater velocities (2, 4 and 8 cm s(-1)) above the CCA in both the light and dark. Canopy macroalgae altered the pH and O-2 environment encountered by understorey coralline algae via their physical presence rather than by directly altering bulk seawater chemistry through their metabolism. Reduced seawater velocities beneath Carpophyllum and mimic canopies resulted in increased CBL thicknesses, higher pH (up to 8.9) and O-2 concentrations in the light, and lower pH (down to 7.74) and O-2 concentrations in the dark. The ability of canopies to facilitate greater metabolic changes in pH at the surface of understorey species highlights a previously unrecorded species interaction that could play an important role in influencing the physiology and ecology of understorey assemblages.
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