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Title:Phytoplankton morphological traits and biomass outline community dynamics in a coastal ecosystem (Gulf of Trieste, Adriatic Sea)
Authors:ID Vascotto, Ivano (Author)
ID Mozetič, Patricija (Author)
ID Francé, Janja (Author)
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Language:English
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
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Abstract:Trait-based ecology has recently gained increasing importance in phytoplankton research. In particular, the taxonomic and morphological traits, such as size and shape of phytoplankton cells, can help to unveil the ecological processes and their drivers in the pelagic domain. Our study aims to shed light on the trophodynamics of phytoplankton communities in a coastal ecosystem in the northern Adriatic Sea (Gulf of Trieste) using data on individual traits such as biomass, size and shape of phytoplankton taxa during a one-year study. The phytoplankton parameters were investigated at the levels of the whole community, groups, and individual cells, analysing also the probability distributions of biomass and size of the latter level. The results showed good agreement between abundance and biomass data, as well as individual size and biomass with differences partly explained by cell shapes. We have emphasized the role of the local freshwater source in bottom-up control, alternating with top-down control of phytoplankton dynamics through taxonomic and morphological diversity. The predominant bimodal and non-power law distribution, especially during and around the biomass peaks, confirmed the importance of nano- and microphytoplankton size classes and the role of blooms in destabilizing the trophic webs. We suggest that the analyses of distribution types of individual cell size and biomass can be appropriate to spot ecological processes driving to unconstrained phytoplankton proliferation or to periods of trophic web stability.
Keywords:phytoplankton, biomass, taxonomic traits, morphological traits, Northern Adriatic, trophodynamics, pelagic domain
Publication status:In print
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:02.10.2024
Year of publishing:2024
PID:20.500.12556/DiRROS-20524 New window
UDC:574
ISSN on article:1585-8553
DOI:10.1007/s42974-024-00215-4 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:210631683 New window
Note:Članek v PDF formatu obsega 14 str.; Online first: 2 Oct. 2024;
Publication date in DiRROS:08.10.2024
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VASCOTTO, Ivano, MOZETIČ, Patricija and FRANCÉ, Janja, 2024, Phytoplankton morphological traits and biomass outline community dynamics in a coastal ecosystem (Gulf of Trieste, Adriatic Sea). Community ecology : an official organ of the Hungarian Ecological Society [online]. 2024. [Accessed 21 April 2025]. DOI 10.1007/s42974-024-00215-4. Retrieved from: https://dirros.openscience.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=20524
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Record is a part of a journal

Title:Community ecology : an official organ of the Hungarian Ecological Society
Shortened title:Community ecol.
Publisher:Akadémiai Kiadó
ISSN:1585-8553
COBISS.SI-ID:25081901 New window

Document is financed by a project

Funder:ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Project number:P1-0237-2020
Name:Raziskave obalnega morja
Funder:Other - Other funder or multiple funders
Funding programme:Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale within the CRUI-CARE Agreement
Funder:ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Funding programme:programme for young researcher
Project number:51986

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License:CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Language:Slovenian
Keywords:fitoplankton, biomasa, taksonomske lastnosti, morfološke lastnosti, severni Jadran, trofodinamika, pelagična domena


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