Early response of the northeast subarctic Pacific plankton assemblage to volcanic ash fertilization

Type : ACL
Nature : Production scientifique
Au bénéfice du Laboratoire : Non
Statut de publication : Publié
Année de publication : 2014
Auteurs (16) : MELANCON J LEVASSEUR M LIZOTTE Martine DELMELLE P CULLEN J,j HAMME Roberta,c PENA A SIMPSON K,g SCARRATT Michael TREMBLAY Jean eric ZHOU J JOHNSON Ken,s SUTHERLAND N ARYCHUK M NEMCEK N ROBERT Marie
Revue scientifique : Limnology And Oceanography
Volume : 59
Fascicule : 1
Pages : 55-67
DOI : 10.4319/lo.2014.59.1.0055
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Abstract : Fe-poor water collected at Sta. P20 in the Gulf of Alaska in June 2011 was enriched with different concentrations of volcanic ash (0.12, 1.2, and 10 mg L-1) from two subduction zone volcanoes, Kasatochi and Chaiten, and incubated onboard under in situ conditions for 6 d. The experimental setup also included a control (no addition) and a positive control (addition of 0.6 nmol L-1 FeSO4). Following a 4 d lag period, there were increases in carbon fixation rates (up to a factor of 10) and chlorophyll a concentrations (up to a factor of 3) in the positive control and in the ash-enriched (1.2 and 10 mg L-1) treatments. Diatoms dominated at the end of the incubations, but cyanobacteria, dinoflagellates, pelagophytes, and haptophytes were also stimulated by the presence of ash. Deposition of similar to 1 mg ash L-1, which is in the lower range of those estimated to have caused the August 2008 bloom following the eruption of the Kasatochi volcano in the Aleutian Islands, would suffice to trigger a bloom in the Gulf of Alaska.
Mots-clés : BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DEPOSITION; DMSP; FRASER-RIVER; MARINE-PHYTOPLANKTON; MESOSCALE IRON ENRICHMENT; PART I; PHYTOPLANKTON PROCESSES; SALMON ONCORHYNCHUS-NERKA; SEAWATER
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Melancon J, Levasseur M, Lizotte M, Delmelle P, Cullen JJ, Hamme RC, Pena A, Simpson KG, Scarratt M, Tremblay J, Zhou J, Johnson KS, Sutherland N, Arychuk M, Nemcek N, Robert M (2014) Early response of the northeast subarctic Pacific plankton assemblage to volcanic ash fertilization. Limnol Oceanogr 59: 55-67 | doi: 10.4319/lo.2014.59.1.0055