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We report an assessment for determining the contribution by diatoms to community productivity and respiration within a coastal benthic ecosystem with multiple autotrophs. During summer, cores of open sediment and seagrass habitat were collected from a lagoon within the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Cores were maintained in an outdoor mesocosm. Germanic acid, an inhibitor of diatom cell division, was added to half the cores and quantification of production and respiration was done. Inhibition of diato...
Show moreThree repeated experimental trials were done in summer months. Thirty-two cores (27 cm diameter, 14 cm depth) were collected from 50 m2 area of seagrass bed at 1 m depth on: June 28, July 12 and July 26, 2017 for trials 1-3, respectively. On each date, 16 cores were collected from seagrass habitat in pairs. Another 16 cores were collected from open sediment (OS) habitat. Extracted, paired cores were placed upright into an open-top plastic tub (49 x 33 x 42 cm) to produce eight tubs of each habitat.
Tubs were transported to Dauphin Island Sea Lab (~30-minute drive) filled with seawater (to core depth of 16 cm) pumped from Mobile Bay (20 km, east of site) and arranged in four blocks within an outdoor mesocosm. Each block contained two tubs of each habitat. After two days, a diatom-specific inhibitor (3 µM solution of germanic acid, i.e. Ge treatment) was randomly added to water, i.e. two tubs per block, one of each habitat type. Germanium (Ge) at high Ge/Si ratios (> 0.01) prevents formation of siliceous cell wall (Azam and Chisholm 1976). We added 3 µM solution and allowed two days for Ge incorporation.
Metabolism measurements:
Two days after, we quantified productivity and respiration from changes in oxygen content within 2-3 hour incubations of chambers and bottles following methods in Anton et al. (2009).
Nitrogen and Silica:
At end of incubation, 100 mL of water from each clear chamber was filtered through 47 mm Whatman glass fiber filter. Filtered water was analyzed for total dissolved nitrogen (TDN) and nitrate+nitrite (NO3-+NO2-) colorimetrically using Skalar autoanalyzer (Dzwonkowski et al. 2017), and for dissolved silicic acid (Si(OH)4) using a manual colorimetric method (Krause et al. 2009).
Statistical analyses:
A series of two-way ANOVAs with trial and treatment as fixed factors were used to test for differences in environment in both habitats.
Krause, J. (2020) Silica and nitrogen analyses from incubation experiments conducted using seagrass cores from 1m depth in Grand Bay in 2017.. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2020-08-10 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.819975.1 [access date]
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