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SUBMITTER: Triantaphyllou MV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6028119 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Triantaphyllou Maria V MV Baumann Karl-Heinz KH Karatsolis Boris-Theofanis BT Dimiza Margarita D MD Psarra Stella S Skampa Elisavet E Patoucheas Pierros P Vollmar Nele M NM Koukousioura Olga O Katsigera Anna A Krasakopoulou Evangelia E Nomikou Paraskevi P
PloS one 20180702 7
A natural pH gradient caused by marine CO2 seeps off the Methana peninsula (Saronikos Gulf, eastern Peloponnese peninsula) was used as a natural laboratory to assess potential effects of ocean acidification on coccolithophores. Coccolithophore communities were therefore investigated in plankton samples collected during September 2011, September 2016 and March 2017. The recorded cell concentrations were up to ~50 x103 cells/l, with a high Shannon index of up to 2.8, along a pH gradient from 7.61 ...[more]