Marine Photochemistry of Organic Matter

Mopper, Kenneth; Kieber, David J.; Stubbins, Aron

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-405940-5.00008-x

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“…DOC decay in the future ocean will also vary depending on how factors other than temperature will be impacted by global change. These factors, amongst others, include changes in ocean circulation and the supply of inorganic nutrients, UV light exposure, dissolved oxygen levels, bacterial community composition, DOC chemical structure, and/or an extreme dilution of individual organic substrates (Lønborg et al, 2009;Kattner et al, 2011;Mopper et al, 2015;Repeta, 2015). Ocean models have predicted that warming may strengthen vertical stratification, thereby suppressing upward mixing of nutrients from the deep ocean and causing longer exposure to UV-light, with possible consequences for the DOC decay.…”

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“…The main processes responsible for the removal of DOC from the ocean water column are: (1) photochemistry, where DOC is degraded directly to CO 2 , carbon monoxide (CO) or low molecular weight organic compounds readily available for prokaryote uptake (Moran and Zepp, 1997;Mopper et al, 2015); (2) abiotic aggregation into microparticles (Kerner et al, 2003) or sorption to particles (Chin et al, 1998); (3) abiotic degradation via free radical reactions with oxygen (Rontani et al, 2014); and (4) degradation by marine heterotrophic prokaryotes (Lønborg and Álvarez-Salgado, 2012), with the latter representing the major DOC sink in the ocean .…”

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Large Stimulation of Recalcitrant Dissolved Organic Carbon Degradation by Increasing Ocean Temperatures

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More than 96% of organic carbon in the ocean is in the dissolved form, most of it with lifetimes of decades to millennia. Yet, we know very little about the temperature sensitivity of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) degradation in a warming ocean. Combining independent estimates from laboratory experiments, oceanographic cruises and a global ocean DOC cycling model, we assess the relationship between DOC decay constants and seawater temperatures. Our results show that the apparent activation energy of DOC decay (E a ) increases by three-fold from the labile (lifetime of days) and semi-labile (lifetime of months) to the semi-refractory (lifetime of decades) DOC pools, with only minor differences between the world's largest ocean basins. This translates into increasing temperature coefficients (Q 10 ) from 1.7-1.8 to 4-8, showing that the generalized assumption of a constant Q 10 of ∼2 for biological rates is not universally applicable for the microbial degradation of DOC in the ocean. Therefore, rising ocean temperatures will preferentially impact the microbial degradation of the more recalcitrant and larger of the three studied pools. Assuming a uniform 1 • C warming scenario throughout the ocean, our model predicts a global decrease of the DOC reservoir by 7 ± 1 Pg C. This represents a 15% reduction of the semi-labile + semi-refractory DOC pools.

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Large Stimulation of Recalcitrant Dissolved Organic Carbon Degradation by Increasing Ocean Temperatures

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“…Breakage of phytoplankton cells through zooplankton grazing, viral attack and autolysis releases DMSP to the algal boundary layer and the dissolved phase and enhances DMS production (Simó, 2004;Stefels et al, 2007). Another process that contributes to DMS production is the diffusive release of DMS from phytoplankton cells, which proceeds almost instantaneously after intracellular DMSP cleavage by DMSP lyases or by photochemically produced radicals (Lavoie et al, 2015;Mopper et al, 2015). Once in seawater, DMS is removed by biotic and abiotic processes.…”

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Sea-surface dimethylsulfide (DMS) concentration from satellite data at global and regional scales

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Abstract. The marine biogenic gas dimethylsulfide (DMS) modulates climate by enhancing aerosol light scattering and seeding cloud formation. However, the lack of time-and space-resolved estimates of DMS concentration and emission hampers the assessment of its climatic effects. Here we present DMS SAT , a new remote sensing algorithm that relies on macroecological relationships between DMS, its phytoplanktonic precursor dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSPt) and plankton light exposure. In the first step, planktonic DMSPt is estimated from satellite-retrieved chlorophyll a and the light penetration regime as described in a previous study . In the second step, DMS is estimated as a function of DMSPt and photosynthetically available radiation (PAR) at the sea surface with an equation of the form: log 10 DMS = α+βlog 10 DMSPt+γ PAR. The two-step DMS SAT algorithm is computationally light and can be optimized for global and regional scales. Validation at the global scale indicates that DMS SAT has better skill than previous algorithms and reproduces the main climatological features of DMS seasonality across contrasting biomes. The main shortcomings of the global-scale optimized algorithm are related to (i) regional biases in remotely sensed chlorophyll (which cause underestimation of DMS in the Southern Ocean) and (ii) the inability to reproduce high DMS / DMSPt ratios in late summer and fall in specific regions (which suggests the need to account for additional DMS drivers). Our work also highlights the shortcomings of interpolated DMS climatologies, caused by sparse and biased in situ sampling. Time series derived from MODIS-Aqua in the subpolar North Atlantic between 2003 and 2016 show wide interannual variability in the magnitude and timing of the annual DMS peak(s), demonstrating the need to move beyond the classical climatological view. By providing synoptic time series of DMS emission, DMS SAT can leverage atmospheric chemistry and climate models and advance our understanding of plankton-aerosol-cloud interactions in the context of global change.

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“…The optically active fraction, chromophoric DOM (CDOM), is essential in both physical and biological processes, controlling light attenuation and photochemical reactions in the surface ocean, impacting the depth of primary production and screening out harmful ultraviolet light (e.g., Arrigo and Brown, 1996;Blough and Del Vecchio, 2002;Mopper et al, 2015). A small fraction of DOM fluoresces, allowing for the identification of DOM sources using excitation-emission matrices (EEMs).…”

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Formation of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter by Bacterial Degradation of Phytoplankton-Derived Aggregates

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Organic matter produced and released by phytoplankton during growth is processed by heterotrophic bacterial communities that transform dissolved organic matter into biomass and recycle inorganic nutrients, fueling microbial food web interactions. Bacterial transformation of phytoplankton-derived organic matter also plays a poorly known role in the formation of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) which is ubiquitous in the ocean. Despite the importance of organic matter cycling, growth of phytoplankton and activities of heterotrophic bacterial communities are rarely measured in concert. To investigate CDOM formation mediated by microbial processing of phytoplankton-derived aggregates, we conducted growth experiments with non-axenic monocultures of three diatoms (Skeletonema grethae, Leptocylindrus hargravesii, Coscinodiscus sp.) and one haptophyte (Phaeocystis globosa). Phytoplankton biomass, carbon concentrations, CDOM and base-extracted particulate organic matter (BEPOM) fluorescence, along with bacterial abundance and hydrolytic enzyme activities (α-glucosidase, β-glucosidase, leucine-aminopeptidase) were measured during exponential growth and stationary phase (∼3-6 weeks) and following 6 weeks of degradation. Incubations were performed in rotating glass bottles to keep cells suspended, promoting cell coagulation and, thus, formation of macroscopic aggregates (marine snow), more similar to surface ocean processes. Maximum carbon concentrations, enzyme activities, and BEPOM fluorescence occurred during stationary phase. Net DOC concentrations (0.19-0.46 mg C L −1 ) increased on the same order as open ocean concentrations. CDOM fluorescence was dominated by protein-like signals that increased throughout growth and degradation becoming increasingly humic-like, implying the production of more complex molecules from planktonic-precursors mediated by microbial processing. Our experimental results suggest that at least a portion of open-ocean CDOM is produced by autochthonous processes and aggregation likely facilitates microbial reprocessing of organic matter into refractory DOM.

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Marine Photochemistry of Organic Matter

Cited by 142 publications

References 460 publications

Large Stimulation of Recalcitrant Dissolved Organic Carbon Degradation by Increasing Ocean Temperatures

Large Stimulation of Recalcitrant Dissolved Organic Carbon Degradation by Increasing Ocean Temperatures

Sea-surface dimethylsulfide (DMS) concentration from satellite data at global and regional scales

Formation of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter by Bacterial Degradation of Phytoplankton-Derived Aggregates

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