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Epiphytic diatom community structure and richness is determined by macroalgal host and location in the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica)

The marine waters around the South Shetland Islands are paramount in the primary production of this Antarctic ecosystem. With the increasing effects of climate change and the annual retreat of the ice shelf, the importance of macroalgae and their diatom epiphytes in primary production also increases...

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Autores principales: Burfeid-Castellanos, Andrea M., Martín-Martín, Rafael P., Kloster, Michael, Angulo-Preckler, Carlos, Avila, Conxita, Beszteri, Bánk
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8087030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33930042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250629
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author Burfeid-Castellanos, Andrea M.
Martín-Martín, Rafael P.
Kloster, Michael
Angulo-Preckler, Carlos
Avila, Conxita
Beszteri, Bánk
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Martín-Martín, Rafael P.
Kloster, Michael
Angulo-Preckler, Carlos
Avila, Conxita
Beszteri, Bánk
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description The marine waters around the South Shetland Islands are paramount in the primary production of this Antarctic ecosystem. With the increasing effects of climate change and the annual retreat of the ice shelf, the importance of macroalgae and their diatom epiphytes in primary production also increases. The relationships and interactions between these organisms have scarcely been studied in Antarctica, and even less in the volcanic ecosystem of Deception Island, which can be seen as a natural proxy of climate change in Antarctica because of its vulcanism, and the open marine system of Livingston Island. In this study we investigated the composition of the diatom communities in the context of their macroalgal hosts and different environmental factors. We used a non-acidic method for diatom digestion, followed by slidescanning and diatom identification by manual annotation through a web-browser-based image annotation platform. Epiphytic diatom species richness was higher on Deception Island as a whole, whereas individual macroalgal specimens harboured richer diatom assemblages on Livingston Island. We hypothesize this a possible result of a higher diversity of ecological niches in the unique volcanic environment of Deception Island. Overall, our study revealed higher species richness and diversity than previous studies of macroalgae-inhabiting diatoms in Antarctica, which could however be the result of the different preparation methodologies used in the different studies, rather than an indication of a higher species richness on Deception Island and Livingston Island than other Antarctic localities.
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spelling pubmed-80870302021-05-06 Epiphytic diatom community structure and richness is determined by macroalgal host and location in the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica) Burfeid-Castellanos, Andrea M. Martín-Martín, Rafael P. Kloster, Michael Angulo-Preckler, Carlos Avila, Conxita Beszteri, Bánk PLoS One Research Article The marine waters around the South Shetland Islands are paramount in the primary production of this Antarctic ecosystem. With the increasing effects of climate change and the annual retreat of the ice shelf, the importance of macroalgae and their diatom epiphytes in primary production also increases. The relationships and interactions between these organisms have scarcely been studied in Antarctica, and even less in the volcanic ecosystem of Deception Island, which can be seen as a natural proxy of climate change in Antarctica because of its vulcanism, and the open marine system of Livingston Island. In this study we investigated the composition of the diatom communities in the context of their macroalgal hosts and different environmental factors. We used a non-acidic method for diatom digestion, followed by slidescanning and diatom identification by manual annotation through a web-browser-based image annotation platform. Epiphytic diatom species richness was higher on Deception Island as a whole, whereas individual macroalgal specimens harboured richer diatom assemblages on Livingston Island. We hypothesize this a possible result of a higher diversity of ecological niches in the unique volcanic environment of Deception Island. Overall, our study revealed higher species richness and diversity than previous studies of macroalgae-inhabiting diatoms in Antarctica, which could however be the result of the different preparation methodologies used in the different studies, rather than an indication of a higher species richness on Deception Island and Livingston Island than other Antarctic localities. Public Library of Science 2021-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8087030/ /pubmed/33930042 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250629 Text en © 2021 Burfeid-Castellanos et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Burfeid-Castellanos, Andrea M.
Martín-Martín, Rafael P.
Kloster, Michael
Angulo-Preckler, Carlos
Avila, Conxita
Beszteri, Bánk
Epiphytic diatom community structure and richness is determined by macroalgal host and location in the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica)
title Epiphytic diatom community structure and richness is determined by macroalgal host and location in the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica)
title_full Epiphytic diatom community structure and richness is determined by macroalgal host and location in the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica)
title_fullStr Epiphytic diatom community structure and richness is determined by macroalgal host and location in the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica)
title_full_unstemmed Epiphytic diatom community structure and richness is determined by macroalgal host and location in the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica)
title_short Epiphytic diatom community structure and richness is determined by macroalgal host and location in the South Shetland Islands (Antarctica)
title_sort epiphytic diatom community structure and richness is determined by macroalgal host and location in the south shetland islands (antarctica)
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8087030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33930042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250629
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