Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (22)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Grzebyk, D.
Right arrow Articles by Berland, B.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Grzebyk, D.
Right arrow Articles by Berland, B.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 18 | NUMBER 10 | PAGES 1837-1849 | 1996
© Oxford University Press

research-article

Influences of temperature, salinity and irradiance on growth of Prorocentrum minimum (Dinophyceae) from the Mediterranean Sea

D. Grzebyk and B. Berland

Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, Unité CNRS 'Diversité biologique et fonctionnement des écosystémes matins', Station Marine d'Endoume Rue de la Batterie-des-Lions, F-13007 Marseille, France

Received on May 26, 1995; accepted on May 3, 1996 A Mediterranean clone of the red-tide forming dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum was studied in vitro for its capacities to adapt to salinity, temperature and light. This clone is euryhaline and shows optimal growth between 15 and 35{per thousand}. After adaptation, slow growth was observed at salinities as low as 5{per thousand}. An apparatus generating crossed gradients of temperature and light allowed 100 combined experimental conditions to be studied. Variations in lighting between 30 and 500 (µmol photons m–2 s–1 had little effect on growth, and no photoinhibition occurred. The clone can grow between 8 and 31°C, but is thermophilic with an optimal growth between 18 and 26.5°C. As a result of large variations in temperature from 18°C down to 10°C and maintained at 10°C, small spherical structures (8–10 µjn) were observed; they are described as temporary cysts. These results were compared to those obtained by different authors, in vitro and in situ, notably in the Mediterranean region.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 J PLANKTON RESHome page
S. Badylak and E. J. Phlips
Spatial and temporal patterns of phytoplankton composition in subtropical coastal lagoon, the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, USA
J. Plankton Res., October 1, 2004; 26(10): 1229 - 1247.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 J PLANKTON RESHome page
M. F. Macedo, P. Duarte, P. Mendes, and J. G. Ferreira
Annual Variation of Environmental Variables, Phytoplankton Species Composition and Photosynthetic Parameters in a Coastal Lagoon
J. Plankton Res., July 1, 2001; 23(7): 719 - 732.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.