Poor correlation between phytoplankton community growth rates and nutrient concentration in the sea

Regaudie-de-Gioux, A.; Sal, S.; López-Urrutia, Á.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1915-2015

Articles | Volume 12, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1915-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1915-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 6

Reviews and syntheses

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24 Mar 2015

Reviews and syntheses |

| 24 Mar 2015

Poor correlation between phytoplankton community growth rates and nutrient concentration in the sea

A. Regaudie-de-Gioux, S. Sal, and Á. López-Urrutia

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Final revised paper (published on 24 Mar 2015)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C6610: 'Poor correlation between phytoplankton 1 community growth rates and nutrient concentration in the sea', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Nov 2014
- AC C8380: 'Actions taken to accommodate the comments by the Reviewer 1', A. Regaudie-de-Gioux, 30 Jan 2015
RC C7047: 'Review of MS ref bg-2014-439 by Regaudie-de-Gioux, S. Sal, and A. López-Urrutia', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Nov 2014
- AC C8391: 'Actions taken to accommodate the comments by the Reviewer 2', A. Regaudie-de-Gioux, 30 Jan 2015
AC C8412: 'Cover Letter', A. Regaudie-de-Gioux, 30 Jan 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by A. Regaudie-de-Gioux on behalf of the Authors (30 Jan 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (11 Feb 2015) by Gerhard Herndl

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (26 Feb 2015)

ED: Publish as is (02 Mar 2015) by Gerhard Herndl

Short summary

We question here is whether phytoplankton community growth rates respond to nutrient concentration in a similar manner to phytoplankton species composing the community, that is, following Monod's model. In situ marine community growth rates in relation to nutrient concentration and the behaviour of a simple multi-species community model show that community growth rate does not follow Monod's model. We observed here that this can be explained as a consequence of change in size structure.