Photosynthesis and respiration of exposed salt-marsh fucoids |
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| Authors: | B H Brinkhuis N R Tempel R F Jones |
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| Institution: | (1) Division of Biological Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, USA;(2) Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA;(3) Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, 11794 Stony Brook, New York, USA |
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| Abstract: | Photosynthesis and respiration of the salt-marsh fucoids Ascophyllum nodosum ecad scorpioides and Fucus vesiculosus were investigated using an infrared CO2 gas analyzer under a variety of light intensities, temperatures, and levels of desiccation while the algae were exposed to the atmosphere. Results indicated that net photosynthesis (0.5 to 2.0 mg C/g dry weight/h) saturated rapidly at light intensities (0.1 to 0.2 g cal/cm2/min) which were approximately 10 to 50% of the daily summer maximum intensities for algae found under phanerogam (Spartina alterniflora) canopies. Desiccation exhibited the most pronounced effect on photosynthesis, which increases slightly between 0 and 25% water loss, levels off, and decreases sharply at water losses greater than 50%. Dark respiration (0.1 to 0.3 mg C/g dry weight/h) is also inhibited by desiccation. Both species of algae appear to be broadly adapted to all three parameters investigated.This research was supported by research grants AG-375 and BO 38018 from the National Science Foundation and, in part, by the State University of New York Research Foundation and the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA).Communicated by M.R. Tripp, Newark |
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