Kinlan M. G. Jan, Baptiste Serandour, Jakob Walve, Monika Winder
{"title":"Plankton blooms over the annual cycle shape trophic interactions under climate change","authors":"Kinlan M. G. Jan, Baptiste Serandour, Jakob Walve, Monika Winder","doi":"10.1002/lol2.10385","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.10385","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding species phenology and temporal co-occurrence across trophic levels is essential to assess anthropogenic impacts on ecological interactions. We analyzed 15 yr of monitoring data to identify trends and drivers of timing and magnitude of bloom-forming phytoplankton and diverse zooplankton taxa in the central Baltic Sea. We show that the timings of phytoplankton blooms advance, whereas crustacean zooplankton seasonal timings remain constant. This increasing offset with the spring bloom is linked to the decline of <i>Pseudocalanus</i>, a key copepod sustaining pelagic fish production. The majority of copepod and cladoceran taxa, however, are co-occurring with summer blooms. We also find new developing fall blooms, fueling secondary production later in the season. Our study highlights that response to climate change differs within and between functional groups, stressing the importance of investigating plankton phenologies over the entire annual cycle in pelagic systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.10385","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140346007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Václava Hazuková, Benjamin T. Burpee, Robert M. Northington, N. John Anderson, Jasmine E. Saros
{"title":"Earlier ice melt increases hypolimnetic oxygen despite regional warming in small Arctic lakes","authors":"Václava Hazuková, Benjamin T. Burpee, Robert M. Northington, N. John Anderson, Jasmine E. Saros","doi":"10.1002/lol2.10386","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.10386","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although trends toward earlier ice-out have been documented globally, the links between ice-out timing and lake thermal and biogeochemical structure vary spatially. In high-latitude lakes where ice-out occurs close to peak intensity of solar radiation, these links remain unclear. Using a long-term dataset from 13 lakes in West Greenland, we investigated how changing ice-out and weather conditions affect lake thermal structure and oxygen concentrations. In early ice-out years, lakes reach higher temperatures across the water column and have deeper epilimnia. Summer hypolimnia are the warmest (~ 11°C) in years when cooler air temperatures follow early ice-out, allowing full lake turnover. Due to the higher potential for substantive spring mixing in early ice-out years, a warmer hypolimnion is associated with higher dissolved oxygen concentrations. By affecting variability in spring mixing, the consequences of shifts in ice phenology for lakes at high latitudes differ from expectations based on temperate regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.10386","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140340809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Koestner, Robert Foster, Ahmed El-Habashi, Shea Cheatham
{"title":"Measurements of the inherent optical properties of aqueous suspensions of microplastics","authors":"Daniel Koestner, Robert Foster, Ahmed El-Habashi, Shea Cheatham","doi":"10.1002/lol2.10387","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.10387","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Libraries of inherent optical properties (IOPs) of microplastics are sparse, yet they are essential for the development of optical techniques to detect and quantify microplastics in the ocean. In this study, we describe our results and technique for the measurement of the IOPs of microplastic suspensions generated from commonly utilized plastics. The measurements included angle-resolved polarized light scattering, and spectral absorption and beam attenuation coefficients. We also performed ancillary characterization of particle properties, including size distribution, shape, and mass concentration of suspended matter. We observed several unique optical characteristics regarding absorption, scattering, and polarization properties compared with typical marine particle assemblages. We show that these results are useful for radiative transfer simulations as well as the potential development of novel plastic detection techniques from above- or in-water optical measurements.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.10387","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140209760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dirk Granse, Antonia Wanner, Martin Stock, Kai Jensen, Peter Mueller
{"title":"Plant-sediment interactions decouple inorganic from organic carbon stock development in salt marsh soils","authors":"Dirk Granse, Antonia Wanner, Martin Stock, Kai Jensen, Peter Mueller","doi":"10.1002/lol2.10382","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.10382","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The storage of organic carbon in the soils of salt marshes and other coastal blue carbon ecosystems has gained considerable attention by the scientific community for more than a decade now, while the relevance and mechanisms of soil inorganic carbon accumulation remain poorly understood. Using long-term annual accretion monitoring over 17 years in <i>N</i> = 50 permanent plots distributed across a 1050-ha salt-marsh complex of the European Wadden Sea, we identified clear relationships between salt-marsh vertical growth rates and the soil densities of inorganic and organic carbon. Specifically, we demonstrate a strong positive correlation between vertical accretion and inorganic carbon density while observing a strong negative correlation between vertical accretion and organic carbon density. This decoupling observed between inorganic and organic soil carbon stocks was governed by plant community composition and associated plant traits, which controlled sedimentation processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.10382","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140069773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrés Martínez-García, Ignacio Peralta-Maraver, Eva Rodríguez-Velasco, Gema L. Batanero, Miriam García-Alguacil, Félix Picazo, Juan Calvo, Rafael Morales-Baquero, Francisco J. Rueda, Isabel Reche
{"title":"Particulate organic carbon sedimentation triggers lagged methane emissions in a eutrophic reservoir","authors":"Andrés Martínez-García, Ignacio Peralta-Maraver, Eva Rodríguez-Velasco, Gema L. Batanero, Miriam García-Alguacil, Félix Picazo, Juan Calvo, Rafael Morales-Baquero, Francisco J. Rueda, Isabel Reche","doi":"10.1002/lol2.10379","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.10379","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Reservoirs act as carbon sinks when sedimentation of particulate organic carbon (POC) exceeds CO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub> emissions. Here, we study the poorly explored process where phytoplankton-derived acidic polysaccharides (APs) aggregate into particulate organic matter, promoting carbon export to sediments. This source of POC in sediments can mineralize to CO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub> over various timescales. Our research, centered on a Mediterranean reservoir, elucidates phenological trends of APs and POC sedimentation and identifies their predominant drivers. Our findings present synchronic sedimentation patterns of POC and APs but identify a 2-week delay between POC sedimentation and CH<sub>4</sub> emissions. Despite its eutrophic status, our data demonstrate this reservoir's role as a carbon sink, sequestering 4.33 g C m<sup>−2</sup> yr<sup>−1</sup>. This highlights the need to consider various time scales when quantifying carbon budgets in reservoirs.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.10379","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140069767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alba Filella, Jacqueline Umbricht, Angelina Klett, Angela Vogts, Thomas Vannier, Olivier Grosso, Maren Voss, Lasse Riemann, Mar Benavides
{"title":"Dissolved organic matter offsets the detrimental effects of climate change in the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Crocosphaera","authors":"Alba Filella, Jacqueline Umbricht, Angelina Klett, Angela Vogts, Thomas Vannier, Olivier Grosso, Maren Voss, Lasse Riemann, Mar Benavides","doi":"10.1002/lol2.10380","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.10380","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Diazotrophs provide a significant reactive nitrogen source in the ocean. Increased warming and stratification may decrease nutrient availability in the future, forcing microbial communities toward using dissolved organic matter (DOM). Not depending on reactive nitrogen availability, diazotrophs may be “winners” in a nutrient-depleted ocean. However, their ability to exploit DOM may influence this success. We exposed cultures of the widespread <i>Crocosphaera</i> to low (26°C, pH 8.1), moderate (28°C, pH 8.0), and extreme (30°C, pH 7.9) climate change scenarios, under control or DOM-amended conditions. Growth was suboptimal in the low and extreme treatments and favored in the moderate treatment. DOM was preferred as a carbon source regardless of the treatment and promoted N<sub>2</sub> fixation in extreme conditions. This was reflected in the increased expression of photosynthesis genes to obtain energy. DOM provides <i>Crocosphaera</i> with a key ecological advantage, possibly dictating diazotroph-derived nitrogen inputs in the future ocean.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.10380","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140038104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martha E. Barta, Greg G. Sass, Jeffrey R. Reed, Thomas A. Cichosz, Aaron D. Shultz, Mark Luehring, Zachary S. Feiner
{"title":"Lagging spawning and increasing phenological extremes jeopardize walleye (Sander vitreus) in north-temperate lakes","authors":"Martha E. Barta, Greg G. Sass, Jeffrey R. Reed, Thomas A. Cichosz, Aaron D. Shultz, Mark Luehring, Zachary S. Feiner","doi":"10.1002/lol2.10383","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.10383","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The phenology of critical biological events in aquatic ecosystems is rapidly shifting due to climate change. Growing variability in phenological cues can increase the likelihood of trophic mismatches (i.e., mismatches in the timing of peak prey and predator abundances), causing recruitment failures in important fisheries. We assessed changes in the spawning phenology of walleye (<i>Sander vitreus</i>) in 194 Midwest US lakes to investigate factors influencing walleye phenological responses to climate change and associated climate variability, including ice-off timing, lake physical characteristics, and population stocking history. Ice-off phenology shifted earlier, about three times faster than walleye spawning phenology over time. Spawning phenology deviations from historic averages increased in magnitude over time, and large deviations were associated with poor offspring survival. Our results foreshadow the risks of increasingly frequent natural recruitment failures due to mismatches between historically tightly coupled spawning and ice-off phenology.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.10383","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139967514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sea-ice loss accelerates carbon cycling and enhances seasonal extremes of acidification in the Arctic Chukchi Sea","authors":"Yixing Zhang, Yingxu Wu, Wei-Jun Cai, Xiangqi Yi, Xiang Gao, Haibo Bi, Yanpei Zhuang, Liqi Chen, Di Qi","doi":"10.1002/lol2.10378","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.10378","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Chukchi Sea shelf (CSS) is a highly productive region in the Arctic Ocean and it is highly efficient for absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide and exporting and retaining carbon in the deep sea. However, with global warming, the carbon retention time in CSS may decrease, leading to less efficient carbon export. Here, we investigate the seasonal variability of carbonate chemistry in CSS using three sets of late- vs. early-summer reoccupations of the same transect. Our findings demonstrate substantially increased and rapid degradation of biologically produced organic matter and therefore acidification over time in the southern CSS due to earlier sea-ice retreat, resulting in significantly shorter carbon retention time. In sharp contrast, no increased degradation has been observed in the northern CSS where photosynthesis has just commenced. In the future, climate change would further diminish the carbon export capacity and exacerbate seasonal acidification not only within CSS but also across other polar coastal oceans.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.10378","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139696315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biotic and thermal drivers alter zooplankton phenology in western Lake Erie","authors":"Jenna Bailey, James M. Hood","doi":"10.1002/lol2.10377","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.10377","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Environmental change, particularly warming and eutrophication, can alter phenology in aquatic systems. Understanding controls on zooplankton phenology is important due to their central role in food webs. While patterns in zooplankton phenology have been well documented, we lack an understanding of how abiotic and biotic drivers influence lake zooplankton phenology during the summer. We examined the phenology of four common zooplankton taxa (<i>Daphnia retrocurva</i>, <i>Skistodiaptomus oregonensis</i>, <i>Mesocyclops</i> spp., Dreissenid veligers) in western Lake Erie during 1995–2022, a period with increasing eutrophication and <i>Bythotrephes longimanus</i> biomass. Many phenology metrics varied by 3 weeks or more from 1995 to 2022. The dominant controls of phenology were temperature and biotic factors, especially grazer-defended phytoplankton (cyanobacteria and other colonial or filamentous taxa) and the invasive predator <i>B. longimanus</i>, which frequently interacted. Our results show that aspects of environmental change interact to shape zooplankton phenology, which can influence phytoplankton biomass and energy flow to higher trophic levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.10377","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139661150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca L. Woodrow, Shane A. White, Stephen R. Conrad, Praktan D. Wadnerkar, Gerard Rocher-Ros, Christian J. Sanders, Ceylena J. Holloway, Isaac R. Santos
{"title":"Enhanced stream greenhouse gas emissions at night and during flood events","authors":"Rebecca L. Woodrow, Shane A. White, Stephen R. Conrad, Praktan D. Wadnerkar, Gerard Rocher-Ros, Christian J. Sanders, Ceylena J. Holloway, Isaac R. Santos","doi":"10.1002/lol2.10374","DOIUrl":"10.1002/lol2.10374","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Headwater streams play a large role in aquatic greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) and dissolved oxygen in streams often undergo changes through diel cycles. However, methane (CH<sub>4</sub>) and nitrous oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O) have unknown diel dynamics. Here, we reveal consistent patterns in CO<sub>2</sub>, CH<sub>4</sub>, and N<sub>2</sub>O over diel cycles and during flood events using high-frequency continuous observations in a subtropical headwater stream. Diel cycles were most pronounced during baseflow. Increased nighttime discharge due to higher groundwater inputs enhanced gas transfer velocities and concentrations. Overall nocturnal emissions were 31%, 68%, and 32% greater than daytime for CO<sub>2</sub>, CH<sub>4</sub>, and N<sub>2</sub>O, respectively. Floods dampened diel signals. If both flood events and diel patterns are neglected, estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from headwaters may be greatly underestimated. Overall, CH<sub>4</sub> and N<sub>2</sub>O emissions from headwater streams may be underestimated by ~ 20–40% due to a lack of observations during nighttime, floods, and in warmer climates.</p>","PeriodicalId":18128,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lol2.10374","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139574168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}