scholarly journals Anthropogenic shift of planktonic food web structure in a coastal lagoon by freshwater flow regulation

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deevesh A. Hemraj ◽  
A. Hossain ◽  
Qifeng Ye ◽  
Jian G. Qin ◽  
Sophie C. Leterme
2014 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélène Masclaux ◽  
Sébastien Tortajada ◽  
Olivier Philippine ◽  
François-Xavier Robin ◽  
Christine Dupuy

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-424
Author(s):  
Kriste Makareviciute-Fichtner ◽  
Birte Matthiessen ◽  
Heike K Lotze ◽  
Ulrich Sommer

Abstract Many coastal oceans experience not only increased loads of nutrients but also changes in the stoichiometry of nutrient supply. Excess supply of nitrogen and stable or decreased supply of silicon lower silicon to nitrogen (Si:N) ratios, which may decrease diatom proportion in phytoplankton. To examine how Si:N ratios affect plankton community composition and food web structure, we performed a mesocosm experiment where we manipulated Si:N ratios and copepod abundance in a Baltic Sea plankton community. In high Si:N treatments, diatoms dominated. Some of them were likely spared from grazing unexpectedly resulting in higher diatom biomass under high copepod grazing. With declining Si:N ratios, dinoflagellates became more abundant under low and picoplankton under high copepod grazing. This altered plankton food web structure: under high Si:N ratios, edible diatoms were directly accessible food for copepods, while under low Si:N ratios, microzooplankton and phago-mixotrophs (mixoplankton) were a more important food source for mesograzers. The response of copepods to changes in the phytoplankton community was complex and copepod density-dependent. We suggest that declining Si:N ratios favor microzoo- and mixoplankton leading to increased complexity of planktonic food webs. Consequences on higher trophic levels will, however, likely be moderated by edibility, nutritional value or toxicity of dominant phytoplankton species.


2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 535-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Weitere ◽  
Anja Scherwass ◽  
Karl-Theo Sieben ◽  
Hartmut Arndt

2019 ◽  
Vol 664 ◽  
pp. 635-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angel Martínez-Durazo ◽  
Jaqueline García-Hernández ◽  
Federico Páez-Osuna ◽  
Martín F. Soto-Jiménez ◽  
Martín E. Jara-Marini

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 1495545 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.U.K. Pillai ◽  
N. Anilkumar ◽  
C.T. Achuthankutty ◽  
C.R. Mendes ◽  
P. Sabu ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. M. Muro-Torres ◽  
M. F. Soto-Jiménez ◽  
L. Green ◽  
J. Quintero ◽  
F. Amezcua

Author(s):  
Marta Comerma ◽  
Juan Carlos García ◽  
Joan Armengol ◽  
Maria Romero ◽  
Karel Šimek

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