Phytoplankton cell counts at 3 pCO2 levels and 2 temperatures before and after 12 month conditioning off New Zealand South Island, near Taiaroa Head, 2011 (Plankton acclimation project)

<p>The study included a short-term two-week temperature/pCO2 factorial matrix incubation experiment using a natural, mixed diatom assemblage, the isolation of clonal cultures from each treatment and conditioning of the clones to the pCO2 and temperature combinations from which they were isolated for 1 year. Finally, the conditioned clones were recombined into artificial communities and allowed to compete, followed by a comparison of final community structure with that observed in the original two-week natural community experiment.</p>

<p>For this dataset, cell abundances of Cylindrotheca fusiformis, Coscinodiscus sp., Thalassiosira sp., Pseudonitzschia delicatissima, Navicula sp and Chaetoceros criophilus assessed after the initial natural community experiment and the 12-month conditioned artificial community incubations at low, medium and high CO2 concentrations and temperatures of 14°C and 19°C. Values given include the three replicate sample counts, the mean of counts and standard deviations on the three replicate bottles.</p>

<p><a href=\"http://dmoserv3.bco-dmo.org/data_docs/Plankton_acclimation/phyto_abund_fig1_expt_design.JPG\" target=\"_blank\">Experimental Design Chart</a></p>

<p><strong>Relevant References:</strong></p>

<p>These data are&nbsp;published as Supplemental Table 2 in&nbsp;Avery O. Tatters, Michael Y. Roleda, Astrid Schnetzer, Feixue Fu, Catriona L. Hurd, Philip W. Boyd, David A. Caron, Alle A. Y. Lie, Linn J. Hoffmann and David A. Hutchins. &nbsp;Research article: Short- and long-term conditioning of a temperate marine diatom community to acidification and warming. Phil. Tras. Roy. Soc. B. 368 (1627) doi: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0437</p>