The responses of respiration and photosynthesis to temperature fluctuations in marine macroalgae have the potential to significantly affect coastal carbon fluxes and sequestration. In this study, the marine red macroalga Gracilaria lemaneiformis was cultured at three different temperatures (12, 19, and 26°C) and at high- and low-nitrogen (N) availability, to investigate the acclimation potentia...

Previous work has shown freshwater macrophytes from lake littoral zones to be "C-enriched compared to the same species collected from fast movlng nvers It is thought that carbon fixation In aquatic plants having thicker, stagnant boundary layers, such as that w h ~ c h occurs withln low turbulence lentic systems, will result in more positive F' 'C values due to greater d~ffusion resistance and ...