Winter-time ecology in the Bothnian Bay, Baltic Sea: nutrients and algae in fast ice |
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Authors: | Jonna Piiparinen Harri Kuosa Janne-Markus Rintala |
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Institution: | 1. Finnish Environment Institute, Marine Research Centre, P.O. Box 140, 00251, Helsinki, Finland 2. Tv?rminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki, J.A. Palménin tie 260, 10900, Hanko, Finland
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Abstract: | Landfast ice algal communities were studied in the strongly riverine-influenced northernmost part of the Baltic Sea, the Bothnian
Bay, during the winter-spring transition of 2004. The under-ice river plume, detected by its low salinity and elevated nutrient
concentrations, was observed only at the station closest to the river mouth. The bottommost ice layer at this station was
formed from the plume water (brine volume 0.71%). This was reflected by the low flagellate-dominated (93%) algal biomass in
the bottom layer, which was one-fifth of the diatom-dominated (74%) surface-layer biomass of 88 μg C l−1. Our results indicate that habitable space plays a controlling role for ice algae in the Bothnian Bay fast ice. Similarly
to the water column in the Bothnian Bay, average dissolved inorganic N:P-ratios in the ice were high, varying between 12 and
265. The integrated chlorophyll a (0.1–2.2 mg m−2) and algal biomass in the ice (1–31 mg C m−2) correlated significantly (Spearman ρ = 0.79), with the highest values being measured close to the river mouth in March and during the melt season in April. Flagellates
<20 μm generally dominated in both the ice and water columns in February–March. In April the main ice-algal biomass was composed
of Melosira arctica and unidentified pennate diatoms, while in the water column Achnanthes taeniata, Scrippsiella hangoei and flagellates dominated. The photosynthetic efficiency (0.003–0.013 (μg C μg chl a
−1] h−1)(μE m−2s−1)−1) and maximum capacity (0.18–1.11 μg C μg chl a
−1] h−1) could not always be linked to the algal composition, but in the case of a clear diatom dominance, pennate species showed
to be more dark-adapted than centric diatoms. |
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