Limiting nutrient and its use efficiency of phytoplankton in a shallow eutrophic lake, Lake Kasumigaura

Fukushima, Takehiko; Matsushita, Bunkei

doi:10.1007/s10750-021-04593-y

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“…organismal; [32]) manifesting as biomass production and material fluxes at higher levels of organization (e.g. ecosystem; [33]). Although we have known that changes in the NUE of a single element are associated with correlated changes in the NUEs of other elements (e.g.…”

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Adaptation to a limiting element involves mitigation of multiple elemental imbalances

Jeyasingh

Sherman

Prater

et al. 2023

J. R. Soc. Interface.

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About 20 elements underlie biology and thus constrain biomass production. Recent systems-level observations indicate that altered supply of one element impacts the processing of most elements encompassing an organism (i.e. ionome). Little is known about the evolutionary tendencies of ionomes as populations adapt to distinct biogeochemical environments. We evolved the bacterium Serratia marcescens under five conditions (i.e. low carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, iron or manganese) that limited the yield of the ancestor compared with replete medium, and measured the concentrations and use efficiency of these five, and five other elements. Both physiological responses of the ancestor, as well as evolutionary responses of descendants to experimental environments involved changes in the content and use efficiencies of the limiting element, and several others. Differences in coefficients of variation in elemental contents based on biological functions were evident, with those involved in biochemical building (C, N, P, S) varying least, followed by biochemical balance (Ca, K, Mg, Na), and biochemical catalysis (Fe, Mn). Finally, descendants evolved to mitigate elemental imbalances evident in the ancestor in response to limiting conditions. Understanding the tendencies of such ionomic responses will be useful to better forecast biological responses to geochemical changes.

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