Effects of four environmental variables on photosynthesis-irradiance relationships in Antarctic sea-ice microalgae |
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Authors: | A C Palmisano J Beeler SooHoo C W Sullivan |
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Institution: | (1) Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California, 90089-0371 Los Angeles, California, USA;(2) Marine Biology Research Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 90089-0371 Los Angeles, California, USA;(3) Present address: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 239-4, 94035 Moffett Field, California, USA |
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Abstract: | The effects of temperature, salinity, growth irradiance and diel periodicity of incident irradiance on photosynthesis-irradiance (P-I) relationships were examined in natural populations of sea-ice microalgae from McMurdo Sound in the austral spring of late 1984. Both P
m
b
(photosynthetic rate at optimum irradiance) and
b
(initial slope or P-I curve) were temperature-dependent reaching optimal rates at approximately +6° and +2°C, respectively. P-I relationships showed little difference at 20 and 33 S; however, no measurable photosynthesis by sea-ice microalgae was detected in a 60 S solution of brine collected from the upper layers of congelation ice. Although diel periodicity characteristic of the under-ice light field appeared to have little effect on P-I relationships, changes in growth irradiance had a profound effect. An increase in growth irradiance from 7 E m-2 s-1 (ambient) to 35 or 160 E m-2 s-1 resulted in a transient three-fold increase in P
m
b
and I
k
(index of photoadaptation) during the first four days, followed by a sharp decline. The effects of these environmental factors on ice algal photosynthesis may influence the distribution of microalgae in sea-ice environments. |
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