{"title":"Correction to “Cascading, interactive, and indirect effects of climate change on aquatic communities, habitats, and ecosystems”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/lno.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18143,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143813430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Esther Wing Kwan Mak, Kendra A. Turk‐Kubo, Anna V. Voznyuk, Mary R. Gradoville, Tyler Coale, Kyoko Hagino, Jonathan P. Zehr
{"title":"Temperature‐dependent growth and activity in a globally distributed nitrogen‐fixing haptophyte","authors":"Esther Wing Kwan Mak, Kendra A. Turk‐Kubo, Anna V. Voznyuk, Mary R. Gradoville, Tyler Coale, Kyoko Hagino, Jonathan P. Zehr","doi":"10.1002/lno.70050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70050","url":null,"abstract":"Dinitrogen (N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>)‐fixing microorganisms play a crucial role in supplying nitrogen (N) to the oceans by converting atmospheric N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> into bioavailable N. N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> fixation was thought to be limited to warm oligotrophic ocean waters, but the association between the N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub>‐fixing UCYN‐A cyanobacterium and specific haptophytes, including <jats:italic>Braarudosphaera bigelowii</jats:italic> and relatives, has been found in diverse ocean environments, including warm subtropical gyres, temperate coastal systems, and cold polar waters. UCYN‐A2, previously known as the symbiont of <jats:italic>B. bigelowii</jats:italic>, and now considered an early‐stage organelle that exchanges fixed nitrogen for fixed carbon, has only recently been cultured. This study investigated the growth and activity of <jats:italic>B. bigelowii</jats:italic> in response to a range of temperatures to better understand its global distribution and ecology. Incubation experiments were conducted with <jats:italic>B. bigelowii</jats:italic> to determine growth rates, carbon (C) and N<jats:sub>2</jats:sub> fixation rates, and cell sizes across a temperature range of 6–26°C. Growth rates were highest between 10°C and 22°C and lowest at 6°C and 26°C. Significant positive correlations were found between cell count‐based growth rates, C‐specific and N‐specific growth rates. <jats:italic>Braarudosphaera bigelowii</jats:italic> cell size increased at low temperatures. The growth and metabolic activity detected across a wide range of temperatures help to explain the wide geographic distribution of <jats:italic>B. bigelowii</jats:italic>. This study presents the first growth and activity measurements under a range of temperatures from <jats:italic>B. bigelowii</jats:italic>, providing vital information needed to understand the unique ecology of this organism and to parameterize its activity in ecosystem models.","PeriodicalId":18143,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143805828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katerina Symiakaki, Stella A. Berger, Gabriela Ágreda‐López, Bence Buttyán, Bence Gergácz, Silke Langenheder, Jens C. Nejstgaard
{"title":"Trophic strategies of freshwater nanoflagellates under variable run‐off scenarios","authors":"Katerina Symiakaki, Stella A. Berger, Gabriela Ágreda‐López, Bence Buttyán, Bence Gergácz, Silke Langenheder, Jens C. Nejstgaard","doi":"10.1002/lno.70054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70054","url":null,"abstract":"Terrestrial run‐off is increasing in temperate lakes due to climate change and can lead to loading of colored dissolved organic matter (cDOM) and nutrients, thus reducing light availability and increasing carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. Run‐off events are highly irregular, resulting in temporal resource variability that may determine the energy flow in planktonic communities. To understand the effects of run‐off variability on natural plankton communities, we conducted a mesocosm experiment at SITES AquaNet in Lake Erken, Sweden. Treated mesocosms received equal total amount of cDOM and nutrients but at different frequencies and magnitudes (Daily, Intermittent, Extreme), while keeping an untreated Control. Here, we performed three surrogate prey incubation experiments with fluorescently labeled bacteria in the mesocosms to study the trophic strategies of nanoflagellates under the run‐off scenarios. Our results show that phototrophic nanoflagellates increased under Daily and Intermittent additions of cDOM and nutrients at early stages but declined thereafter, likely due to light limitation and grazing by rotifers. Heterotrophic nanoflagellate biovolume was highest in the beginning, while the grazing rate on bacteria was highest in the middle of the experiment when bacterial abundance was highest. The mixotrophic nanoflagellate abundance was generally low and unaffected by the treatments, despite high bacterial densities and reduced light, while the highest abundance was found in the Control. The overall development of nanoflagellates was modulated by microzooplankton grazing pressure over time. Our study contributes to better understanding the influence of future global change, including variable terrestrial run‐off scenarios, on food‐web interactions considering both bottom‐up and top‐down processes.","PeriodicalId":18143,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143813440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joseph H. Vineis, Jessica M. Burger, Sarah E. Fawcett, Bess B. Ward
{"title":"Co‐occurrence and successional patterns among diatoms, dinoflagellates, and potential parasites in a coastal upwelling experiment","authors":"Joseph H. Vineis, Jessica M. Burger, Sarah E. Fawcett, Bess B. Ward","doi":"10.1002/lno.70048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70048","url":null,"abstract":"Diatom‐dominated blooms in coastal upwelling systems contribute disproportionately to global primary production. The fate of carbon captured during a diatom bloom is often influenced by species‐specific ecological differences. However, successional patterns that take place during a diatom bloom are often oversimplified, and the diversity of diatom adaptations to different stages of a bloom remains poorly characterized. To improve our understanding of diatom specificity to certain conditions within a bloom, we employed microscopy, 18S rRNA amplicons, and biogeochemical analysis within a simulated upwelling mesocosm experiment. We successfully simulated a diatom bloom and found that diatoms bloomed during early and late phases of the bloom. Surprisingly, the relative abundance of congeneric diatoms with the <jats:italic>Thalassiosira</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Chaetoceros</jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Pseudonitzschia</jats:italic> displayed opposing patterns that were consistent among experimental mesocosms. The late stage of the bloom was especially interesting because some diatoms continued to bloom among mixotrophic dinoflagellate genera <jats:italic>Akashiwo</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Heterocapsa</jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Prorocentrum</jats:italic>. Additionally, Syndiniales putative parasites were correlated with several diatoms, especially in the initial phase of the bloom. The novel observations of consistent rapid successional changes within our mesocosms reflect the ability of diatom and dinoflagellate genera to occupy bloom conditions that fall outside traditional expectations. Syndiniales parasite co‐occurrence with blooming diatoms may be important to successional trends of coastal diatom populations, and this parasitic interaction deserves further study in coastal upwelling systems. This study indicates there are underlying diatom traits and biotic interactions that should be considered when estimating their contribution to productivity and carbon cycling within upwelling systems.","PeriodicalId":18143,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143805588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah L. Solomon, Jasper M. de Goeij, Emily M. Croasdale, Verena Schoepf
{"title":"Seasonality modulates coral trophic plasticity in an extreme, multi‐stressor environment","authors":"Sarah L. Solomon, Jasper M. de Goeij, Emily M. Croasdale, Verena Schoepf","doi":"10.1002/lno.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70046","url":null,"abstract":"Corals with high trophic plasticity, i.e., the ability to change the relative contribution of heterotrophic and autotrophic nutrition to their mixotrophic diet, can have increased tolerance to individual stressors, but it is poorly understood how trophic strategies shift in response to combined global (e.g., warming, acidification) and local stressors (e.g., nutrient input). Furthermore, it remains unclear how season‐associated changes in physicochemical conditions modulate trophic strategies and which coral species generally have trophic plasticity. We measured the tissue stable isotopes (δ<jats:sup>13</jats:sup>C and δ<jats:sup>15</jats:sup>N) of three coral species (<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\"><jats:italic>Siderastrea siderea</jats:italic></jats:styled-content>, <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\"><jats:italic>Siderastrea radians</jats:italic></jats:styled-content>, and branching <jats:italic>Porites</jats:italic> sp.) from two distinct habitats: extreme, multi‐stressor inland bay habitats and nearby fringing reefs with more benign environmental conditions. We further captured trophic plasticity between dry and wet seasons, as well as the effects of in situ heat stress on trophic strategies. Bay corals tended to be more autotrophic than fringing reef corals, which may be driven by higher nutrient input in the bays. All three coral species shifted their trophic strategy between the cool dry and warm wet seasons; however, the direction of trophic shifts varied between δ<jats:sup>13</jats:sup>C and δ<jats:sup>15</jats:sup>N. Bay <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\"><jats:italic>S. siderea</jats:italic></jats:styled-content> had the highest trophic plasticity across seasons, which likely facilitates their success in these multi‐stressor habitats. Interestingly, not all species relied equally on heterotrophy, as bay <jats:italic>Porites</jats:italic> had a primarily autotrophic diet, even during the wet season when conditions were more extreme. This highlights that coral tolerance to more extreme conditions is promoted through dynamic shifts in diet, rather than only increasing heterotrophy.","PeriodicalId":18143,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143784676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Margot Sepp, Marju Tamm, Silvia E. Newell, Justin A. Myers, Triin Hunt, Kadi Palmik‐Das, Lea Tuvikene, Peeter Nõges, Tiina Nõges, Mark J. McCarthy
{"title":"Water column ammonium regeneration supports productivity in two large, eutrophic lakes","authors":"Margot Sepp, Marju Tamm, Silvia E. Newell, Justin A. Myers, Triin Hunt, Kadi Palmik‐Das, Lea Tuvikene, Peeter Nõges, Tiina Nõges, Mark J. McCarthy","doi":"10.1002/lno.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70047","url":null,"abstract":"Phytoplankton often rely on the regeneration of ammonium () to produce biomass and, for some cyanobacteria, nitrogen‐rich toxins, despite low or unmeasurable concentrations in water. Thus, measuring turnover rates (i.e., uptake and regeneration) is necessary to determine its actual availability. The objectives of this study were to quantify water column turnover rates in two large, shallow, eutrophic, cyanobacteria‐dominated lakes in Estonia (Lakes Võrtsjärv and Peipsi), explore which in‐lake variables drive these processes, and evaluate the importance of internal nitrogen loading in supporting community uptake. Stable isotope () incubations were conducted almost monthly in Võrtsjärv and several times per year in Peipsi (from March 2019 to March 2022). Despite being located at a higher latitude, turnover rates in Võrtsjärv and Peipsi were similar to those reported for other large, eutrophic lakes. turnover rates were strongly related to seasonally changing water quality variables, including temperature, nutrient concentrations, and chlorophyll <jats:italic>a</jats:italic> concentrations, which, combined, explained 68–71% of the variation in measured rates. regeneration supported, on average, 65.2% ± 9.6% (in Võrtsjärv) and 75.6% ± 16.8% (in Peipsi) of community uptake during the warm season (May to October). For 2020, estimated internal nitrogen loading from regeneration in the water column exceeded, by ~ 18 times, estimated external nitrogen loading to Võrtsjärv from the three main inflows. These results emphasize the importance of internal nitrogen loading in driving primary productivity in lakes and highlight the necessity to reduce external nitrogen loading, in addition to phosphorus, into eutrophic lakes.","PeriodicalId":18143,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143757761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romana Limberger, Jenny Spaak, Helmut Bürgmann, Piet Spaak, Blake Matthews
{"title":"Differential effects of Daphnia genotype composition on spatial environmental heterogeneity in experimental metacommunities","authors":"Romana Limberger, Jenny Spaak, Helmut Bürgmann, Piet Spaak, Blake Matthews","doi":"10.1002/lno.70043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70043","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial environmental heterogeneity is an important driver of aquatic biodiversity. Ecological and evolutionary theory often consider spatial heterogeneity as being driven by exogenous factors, yet heterogeneity can also be generated and modified by organisms. Here we used a mesocosm experiment to investigate if consumers influence the build‐up of spatial heterogeneity. We expected that consumer effects on heterogeneity would depend on consumer composition and differ among response variables. We constructed metacommunities consisting of three mesocosms and manipulated the presence and composition of consumers, using four treatment levels: (1) no consumers, (2) two genotypes of <jats:italic>Daphnia galeata</jats:italic>, (3) <jats:italic>D. galeata</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Daphnia longispina</jats:italic>, and (4) <jats:italic>D. galeata</jats:italic> and a hybrid of <jats:italic>D. galeata × D. longispina</jats:italic>. We then continuously increased heterogeneity among the three patches of each metacommunity by adding nutrients and dissolved organic carbon (DOC), respectively, to two of the three mesocosms. We found that consumers affected the build‐up of heterogeneity, but the direction and magnitude of this effect differed among consumer compositions. Metacommunities with only <jats:italic>D. galeata</jats:italic> had increased heterogeneity in phytoplankton biomass, whereas metacommunities with <jats:italic>D. longispina</jats:italic> or the hybrid had low phytoplankton heterogeneity. The differential effects of <jats:italic>Daphnia</jats:italic> taxa on phytoplankton heterogeneity cascaded down to the abiotic environment and resulted in taxon‐specific effects on heterogeneity in light extinction, dissolved inorganic nitrogen, and total inorganic carbon. Our results imply that changes in consumer species (e.g., due to environmental change or invasion) might affect not only the local environment but could also impact heterogeneity among environments, with important consequences for aquatic biodiversity.","PeriodicalId":18143,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143736621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catherine E. Lovelock, Marilyn C. Ball, Nigel Brothers, Alex Pearse, Ruth Reef
{"title":"Dynamics of surface accretion and surface elevation differ between river and tide dominated settings in tropical mangroves","authors":"Catherine E. Lovelock, Marilyn C. Ball, Nigel Brothers, Alex Pearse, Ruth Reef","doi":"10.1002/lno.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70024","url":null,"abstract":"The maintenance of soil surface elevation in mangroves supports the persistence of mangroves with sea level rise. The processes contributing to soil surface elevation have rarely been assessed in the humid tropics, despite most mangroves occurring in river deltas and tidal estuaries within this climate zone. Using surface elevation table (SET) with marker horizon methods over sites that occurred on either the main river channel or a tidal channel, we assessed the role of rainfall and associated river discharge in moderating surface elevation in mangroves of the Daintree River, Queensland, Australia. In the sites in the main river channel close to the river mouth, increases in soil surface elevation were episodic, with river flooding leading to greater accretion of sediment and increases in surface elevation in years with high river discharge, while in the tidal channel further from the mouth, sediment accretion and surface elevation increments were variable among years and not linked to river discharge. Our study finds that the 32.7 km<jats:sup>2</jats:sup> of mangroves of the Daintree River estuary have surface elevation gains that are variable but similar to current rates of sea level rise through trapping of around 40,000 t of sediment annually, mainly within the downstream mangroves and those in the main river channel. Extreme rainfall and river flows have spatially variable influences on surface elevation in mangroves of the Daintree River, which may lead to similarly variable responses to accelerating sea level rise.","PeriodicalId":18143,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143734136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trout have weak effects on zooplankton diversity but strong effects on community biomass","authors":"Matthew D. Green, Kurt E. Anderson","doi":"10.1002/lno.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70041","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction and extirpation of predators can have large impacts on food web structure and ecosystem function. The magnitude of these predator effects can be influenced by species diversity and turnover along environmental gradients in space or time, which have the potential to buffer or magnify the impact of trophic interactions on ecosystem functioning. In this study, we explored the individual species and community effects of fish predators on lake zooplankton in the Sierra Nevada, CA, USA. Local and beta diversity in zooplankton communities were resilient to fish, only marginally differing among fish and fishless sites, and were more structured along elevational gradients. Observed diversity changes were attributed to species turnover in zooplankton communities, which suggests elevational gradients and fish are acting as ecological filters excluding subsets of species rather than reducing species density. We found that fish significantly reduced densities of larger‐bodied zooplankton species. Further, as larger‐bodied species densities were lower in the presence of fish, we found that the community weighted mean of body mass decreased in the presence of fish in lakes. Although species turnover largely maintained diversity over elevational gradients and in the presence of fish, such changes in larger‐bodied taxa and community biomass may have important implications in the transfer of energy throughout the food web and to connected riparian and aquatic ecosystems that are dependent on the flow of biomass and nutrients.","PeriodicalId":18143,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143734106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Summer dynamics drive the microbial response to carbon and nutrient additions in a high‐altitude lake","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/lno.12472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12472","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18143,"journal":{"name":"Limnology and Oceanography","volume":"183 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143734109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}