Community gross primary production and respiration in epilithic macroalgae and Posidonia oceanica macrophytodetritus accumulation in the Bay of Revellata (Corsica)

Champenois, Willy; Lepoint, Gilles; Borges, Alberto

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Community gross primary production and respiration in epilithic macroalgae and Posidonia oceanica macrophytodetritus accumulation in the Bay of Revellata (Corsica)

Champenois, Willy; Lepoint, Gilles; Borges, Alberto

2024 • In Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 309 (108971), p. 1-11

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Posidonia oceanica; macrophytodetritus accumulation; macroalgae; net community production; gross primary production; community respiration

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[en] We report estimates of community gross primary production (GPP), community respiration (CR), and net community production (NCP) based on the change of dissolved O2 during incubations over epilithic turf-forming macroalgae (Halopteris scoparia, Padina pavonica, and Dictyota dichotoma) on 7 occasions and in accumulations of Posidonia oceanica macrophytodetritus (i.e. litter) on 8 occasions in the Bay of Revellata (Corsica) from March 2009 to May 2011. In the epilithic macroalgae community, GPP ranged between 7.8 and 82.2mmol O2 m-2 d-1, CR ranged between -108.5 and -13.6mmol O2 m-2 d-1, and NCP ranged between -53.2 and -5.7mmol O2 m-2 d-1. In the P. oceanica macrophytodetritus accumulation, GPP ranged between 5.7 and 91.6mmol O2 m-2 d-1, CR ranged between -112.8 and -27.2mmol O2 m-2 d-1, and NCP ranged between -46.8 and -9.9mmol O2 m-2 d-1. GPP in both the epilithic macroalgae community and the P. oceanica macrophytodetritus accumulation peaked in summer and was lowest in fall, following the seasonal variation of incoming light. GPP correlated to macroalgal biomass but was unrelated to the biomass of living macroscopic plant material in the P. oceanica macrophytodetritus accumulation. The annual average of GPP was equivalent in the epilithic macroalgae and P. oceanica macrophytodetritus accumulation communities (17.6 and 19.4mol O2 m-2 yr-1). Both the epilithic macroalgae community and the P. oceanica macrophytodetritus accumulation were net heterotrophic with an annual average NCP of -6.1 and -8.8mol O2 m-2 yr-1, respectively. The NCP of the adjacent P. oceanica meadow at 10 m depth based on simultaneous measurements based on the open water O2 mass balance from moored O2 probes (optodes) was 28.9mol O2 m-2 yr-1. The potential export of dissolved organic carbon from the P. oceanica meadow could quantitatively meet the carbon demand to sustain the net heterotrophy of the adjacent epilithic macroalgae community in the Bay of Revellata. We also show the limitation and possibly over-estimation of extrapolating decay rates based on litter bag experiments with small quantities of material to “real” macrophytodetritus biomass densities.

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FOCUS - Freshwater and OCeanic science Unit of reSearch - ULiège

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Aquatic sciences & oceanology

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Champenois, Willy ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Chemical Oceanography Unit (COU)

Lepoint, Gilles ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Biologie, Ecologie et Evolution

Borges, Alberto ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Chemical Oceanography Unit (COU)

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Community gross primary production and respiration in epilithic macroalgae and Posidonia oceanica macrophytodetritus accumulation in the Bay of Revellata (Corsica)

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December 2024

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Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science

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0272-7714

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1096-0015

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Elsevier BV

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309

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108971

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1-11

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F.R.S.-FNRS - Fund for Scientific Research

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