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Microbial
Biodiversity in the
Chesapeake Bay
Grace Kim [email protected]
NASA Ocean Ecology Laboratory
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Biodiversity is variety of life
Photo: https://www.marylandhall.org/exhibitions/working-water-photography-jay-fleming
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Biodiversity is important for ecosystem resilience
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Resilience to short term disturbances such as a storm event
Photo: https://blogs.agu.org/mountainbeltway/2011/09/16/turbidity-in-chesapeake-bay/
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Resilience to long term changes such as rising temperature
Figure: Najjar, R. G., et al. "Potential climate-change impacts on the Chesapeake Bay." Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 86.1 (2010): 1-20.
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Applications of Phytoplankton Biodiversity
Detect algal blooms
- Match ocean color with color of phytoplankton
- Determine dominance of one species
Infer ecosystem health
- Establish a relationship between satellite measurement and biodiversity
- Estimate species richness and relative abundance
Photo: https://caae.cals.ncsu.edu/research/harmful-algae/marine/
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Phytoplankton Biodiversity: taxonomic identification with pigments
Photo: https://pace.oceansciences.org/gallery_more.htm?id=1594Figure: Wolanin, A., et. al. "Investigation of spectral band requirements for improving
retrievals of phytoplankton functional types." Remote Sensing 8.10 (2016): 871.
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Monitoring Phytoplankton Biodiversity: Dominant algae based on pigment color
Figure: https://pace.oceansciences.org/about.htm#02Photo: http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/environmental-epidemiology/harmful-algal-blooms-
habs/alexandrium-monilatum-hab-in-lower-york-lower-james-rivers-and-chesapeake-bay/
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Monitoring Phytoplankton Biodiversity: Dominant algae based on pigment color
Figure: https://pace.oceansciences.org/about.htm#02Photo: http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/environmental-epidemiology/harmful-algal-blooms-
habs/alexandrium-monilatum-hab-in-lower-york-lower-james-rivers-and-chesapeake-bay/
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Monitoring Phytoplankton Biodiversity: Dominant algae based on pigment color
Left: https://pace.oceansciences.org/about.htm#02 Right: Wolanin, A., et. al. "Investigation of spectral band requirements for improving
retrievals of phytoplankton functional types." Remote Sensing 8.10 (2016): 871.
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Phytoplankton Biodiversity: taxonomic identification with genomics
Figure: https://methodsblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/exploring-microbial-diversity/
Abundance Richness
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Monitoring Phytoplankton Biodiversity: light attenuation as a potential proxy
Figure: Huisman, J., et al. "Competition for light between phytoplankton species: experimental tests of mechanistic theory." Ecology 80.1 (1999): 211-222.
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Monitoring Phytoplankton Biodiversity: light attenuation as a potential proxy
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Monitoring Phytoplankton Biodiversity: light attenuation as a potential proxy
Z, attenuation depth
kd, attenuation coefficient
kd = (1/Z)
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Monitoring Phytoplankton Biodiversity: light attenuation as a potential proxy
Photos: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/52169
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Biodiversity and resilience are important for species interactions
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Predicting biodiversity with models
1. Include phytoplankton types in a model and associated ocean color satellite signal
2. Incorporate relationship between light attenuation and biodiversity
Left: Najjar, R. G., et al. "Potential climate-change impacts on the Chesapeake Bay." Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 86.1 (2010): 1-20. Right: Feng, Yang, et al. "Chesapeake Bay nitrogen fluxes derived from a land‐estuarine ocean biogeochemical modeling system: Model
description, evaluation, and nitrogen budgets." Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 120.8 (2015): 1666-1695.
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Summary
• Biodiversity is important for ecosystem resilience
• Two applications monitoring phytoplankton biodiversity • Public Health: detecting algal blooms
(dominance of one species)• Fisheries: develop a proxy for microbial
biodiversity to assess ecosystem health (species richness and abundance)
• Models can help predict changes in biodiversity for different environmental conditions
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Discussion
• How does biodiversity relate to your decision making?
• What do you want to know about biodiversity in the Bay? Spatial patterns, trends, predictions?
• Opportunities for collaboration
Contact: [email protected]