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dc.contributor.authorHarrison, Joel W.
dc.contributor.authorBeecraft, Laura
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Ralph E. H.
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-11 14:36:53 (GMT)
dc.date.available2018-10-11 14:36:53 (GMT)
dc.date.issued2018-12-01
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2018.09.013
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/13991
dc.descriptionThe final publication is available at Elsevier via https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2018.09.013 © 2018. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.description.abstractMulti-wavelength fluorometers, such as the bbe FluoroProbe (FP), measure excitation spectra of chlorophyll a (Chl-a) fluorescence to infer the abundance and composition of phytoplankton communities as well as the concentration of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM). Experiments were conducted on laboratory cultures and on natural communities of freshwater phytoplankton to determine how the response of phytoplankton to high irradiance might affect fluorometric estimates of community composition and concentrations of Chl-a and CDOM. Cultures of a representative cyanobacterium, bacillariophyte, synurophyte, cryptophyte, and chlorophyte revealed changes in Chl-a excitation spectra as irradiance was increased to saturating levels and non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) increased. The degree of change and resulting classification error varied among taxa, being strong for the synurophyte and cryptophyte but minimal for the cyanobacterium. Acute-exposure experiments on phytoplankton communities of varying taxonomic composition from five lakes yielded variable results on apparent community composition. There was a consistent decrease in CDOM estimates, whereas Chl-a estimates were generally increased. Subsequent exposure to low PAR relaxed NPQ and tended to reverse the effects of high irradiance on composition, total Chl-a, and CDOM estimates. Relaxation experiments on near-surface communities in a sixth, large lake, Georgian Bay, showed that total Chl-a estimates increased by 44% on average when dark treatments were used to relax NPQ, though, in contrast to the findings from the small lakes, there was little effect on CDOM estimates. We observed a statistically-significant, negative linear relationship between the photon flux density of in situ irradiance and the accuracy of taxonomic assignment by FP in Georgian Bay. Not discounting the correlations between light intensity and the accuracy of the FP that were observed in this study, we conclude that the applicability of the reference spectra to the system under investigation is a more important consideration than variability in natural irradiance conditions.en
dc.description.sponsorshipLake Simcoe/South-eastern Georgian Bay Clean-Up Funden
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectCDOMen
dc.subjectFluoroProbeen
dc.subjectNPQen
dc.subjectPhytoplanktonen
dc.subjectSpectral fluorescenceen
dc.titleImplications of irradiance exposure and non-photochemical quenching for multi-wavelength (bbe FluoroProbe) fluorometryen
dc.typeArticleen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHarrison, J. W., Beecraft, L., & Smith, R. E. H. (2018). Implications of irradiance exposure and non-photochemical quenching for multi-wavelength (bbe FluoroProbe) fluorometry. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 189, 36–48. doi:10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2018.09.013en
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Scienceen
uws.contributor.affiliation2Biologyen
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