Articles | Volume 19, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3683-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3683-2022
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05 Aug 2022
Research article |  | 05 Aug 2022

Investigating the effect of nickel concentration on phytoplankton growth to assess potential side-effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement

Jiaying Abby Guo, Robert Strzepek, Anusuya Willis, Aaron Ferderer, and Lennart Thomas Bach

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Growth rate and Fast Repetition Rate fluorometry (FRRf) of phytoplankton J. Guo https://doi.org/10.25959/1Z63-7555

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Ocean alkalinity enhancement is a CO2 removal method with significant potential, but it can lead to a perturbation of the ocean with trace metals such as nickel. This study tested the effect of increasing nickel concentrations on phytoplankton growth and photosynthesis. We found that the response to nickel varied across the 11 phytoplankton species tested here, but the majority were rather insensitive. We note, however, that responses may be different under other experimental conditions.
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