TY - JOUR
T1 - Rates and drivers of Red Sea plankton community metabolism
AU - Lopez Sandoval, Daffne
AU - Rowe, Katherine
AU - Carillo-de-Albonoz, Paloma
AU - Duarte, Carlos M.
AU - Agusti, Susana
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): BAS/1/1071-01-01, BAS/1/1072-01-01, FCC/1/1973-21-01
Acknowledgements: Acknowledgements: The authors thank the editor and the reviewers for their thorough revision and constructive comments that helped to greatly improve the paper.
PY - 2019/8/2
Y1 - 2019/8/2
N2 - Resolving the environmental drivers shaping planktonic communities is fundamental for understanding their variability, in the present and the future, across the ocean. More specifically, addressing the temperature-dependence response of planktonic communities is essential as temperature plays a key role in regulating metabolic rates and thus potentially defining the ecosystem functioning. Here we quantified plankton metabolic rates along the Red Sea, a uniquely oligotrophic and warm environment, and analysed the drivers that regulate gross primary production (GPP), community respiration (CR), and net community production (NCP). The study was conducted on six oceanographic surveys following a north–south transect along the Saudi Arabian coast. Our findings revealed that GPP and CR rates increased with increasing temperature (R2=0.41 and 0.19, respectively; p
AB - Resolving the environmental drivers shaping planktonic communities is fundamental for understanding their variability, in the present and the future, across the ocean. More specifically, addressing the temperature-dependence response of planktonic communities is essential as temperature plays a key role in regulating metabolic rates and thus potentially defining the ecosystem functioning. Here we quantified plankton metabolic rates along the Red Sea, a uniquely oligotrophic and warm environment, and analysed the drivers that regulate gross primary production (GPP), community respiration (CR), and net community production (NCP). The study was conducted on six oceanographic surveys following a north–south transect along the Saudi Arabian coast. Our findings revealed that GPP and CR rates increased with increasing temperature (R2=0.41 and 0.19, respectively; p
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/630239
UR - https://www.biogeosciences.net/16/2983/2019/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85073888064&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5194/bg-16-2983-2019
DO - 10.5194/bg-16-2983-2019
M3 - Article
SN - 1810-6285
VL - 16
SP - 2983
EP - 2995
JO - Biogeosciences
JF - Biogeosciences
IS - 15
ER -