TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON SILICON- AND PHOSPHORUS-LIMITED GROWTH AND COMPETITIVE INTERACTIONS AMONG THREE DIATOMS 1
Donk, Ellen; Kilham, Susan Soltau
1990-03
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Donk, Ellen; Kilham, Susan Soltau (1990). "TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON SILICON- AND PHOSPHORUS-LIMITED GROWTH AND COMPETITIVE INTERACTIONS AMONG THREE DIATOMS 1 ." Journal of Phycology 26(1): 40-50. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/65593>
Abstract
Three diatom species, Stephanodiscus hantzschii (Ehr.) Grun., Asterionella formosa Hass. and Fragilaria crotonensis Kitt. Hass. were isolated from Lake Maarsseveen where they are dominant and show a successional sequence. The physiological responses of each species to temperature and limitation by silicon and phosphorus were determined over the temperature range of 5° to 20° C using short-term batch culture methods. Stephanodiscus hantzschii had higher maximum growth rates than the other two species at all temperatures, and the maximum growth rates of all species increased with increasing temperature. Temperature affected not only maximum growth rates but also half-saturation constants (K s ) and the minimum cell quotas. S. hantzschii had low silicon requirements for growth under Si-limiting conditions, and A. formosa and F. crotonensis had higher and nearly identical silicon requirements. The K s values for silicon for S. hantzschii were essentially constant from 5° to 20° C but varied greatly for the other two species. A. formosa had the lowest requirements for growth under phosphorus limitation, F. crotonensis was intermediate and S. hantzschii had the highest growth requirements for phosphorus. The K 1 values for phosphorus were constant over the temperature range for both A. formosa and F. crotonensis and were much higher and variable for S. hantzschii . Nutrient competition experiments were performed in continuous cultures at four temperatures and various Si:P ratios. The results generally, but not always, confirmed the predictions based on the Monod relationships for each species. Results not in agreement with predictions were usually because of similar physiological properties of A. formosa and F. crotonensis or because of decreased loss rates for F. crotonensis due to wall growth. In cultures with all three species phosphorus-limited (Si:P > 75), A. formosa often dominated as predicted, although F. crotonensis was sometimes the most abundant species. As predicted, S. hantzschii never dominated at high Si:P ratios. At intermediate Si:P ratios when A. formosa and F. crotonensis were both Si-limited and S. hantzschii P-limited, all three species coexisted because A. formosa and F. crotonensis have almost identical silicon requirements, although sometimes F. crotonensis was more abundant than predicted. At 10°C the results agreed best with the predictions; A. formosa dominated at high Si:P ratios and S. hantzschii dominated as predicted at low Si:P ratios when all three species were Si-limited.Publisher
Blackwell Science Inc
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0022-3646 1529-8817
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