Abstract
To properly calculate the carbon budgets of coastal marine habitats, potential fluctuations in oxygen consumption due to mitochondrial respiration must be taken into account. As mitochondrial respiration is sometimes inhibited in light, we used the Kok method to estimate whether such suppression occurs in the seagrasses Zostera marina and Ruppia maritima as well as in the macroalga Ulva intestinalis. For Z. marina and U. intestinalis, the respiration rate was clearly downregulated in light, a finding that might be important when determining the impact of respiration on estimated net primary productivity in these marine habitats.
Acknowledgments
Funding by The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences for the stay at SLC is gratefully acknowledged.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Research articles
- Species diversity and distribution of mangroves in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
- Changes in seagrass leaf reddening and morphology in response to emersion
- Extracts of macroalgae from the Brazilian coast inhibit bacterial quorum sensing
- First report of Laurencia chondrioides (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) and its potential to be an invasive in the eastern Mediterranean Sea
- The new species Neosiphonia thailandica sp. nov. (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Gulf of Thailand
- Effects of salinity stress on the growth and chlorophyll fluorescence of Phaeodactylum tricornutum and Chaetoceros gracilis (Bacillariophyceae)
- Short communications
- Comparison of the photosynthetic characteristics of two Isochrysis galbana strains under high light
- Determining light suppression of mitochondrial respiration for three temperate marine macrophytes using the Kok method
- Reviewer acknowledgement Botanica Marina volume 57 (2014)
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Research articles
- Species diversity and distribution of mangroves in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
- Changes in seagrass leaf reddening and morphology in response to emersion
- Extracts of macroalgae from the Brazilian coast inhibit bacterial quorum sensing
- First report of Laurencia chondrioides (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) and its potential to be an invasive in the eastern Mediterranean Sea
- The new species Neosiphonia thailandica sp. nov. (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Gulf of Thailand
- Effects of salinity stress on the growth and chlorophyll fluorescence of Phaeodactylum tricornutum and Chaetoceros gracilis (Bacillariophyceae)
- Short communications
- Comparison of the photosynthetic characteristics of two Isochrysis galbana strains under high light
- Determining light suppression of mitochondrial respiration for three temperate marine macrophytes using the Kok method
- Reviewer acknowledgement Botanica Marina volume 57 (2014)