Adaptive behavior of euryhaline phytoplankton communities to arsenic stress

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See, stats, and : https : / / www . researchgate . net / publication / 250213914 Adaptive phytoplankton Article DOI : 10 . 3354 / meps022199 CITATIONS 32 READS 50 2 : James University 86 , 376 SEE Stephen Environmental , Inc . 10 SEE All . The . All - text and , letting . ABSTRACT : Long - term experiments performed with large - volume continuous cultures of natural phytoplankton assemblages exposed to low levels of arsenate (1 to 10 X ambient concentrations) have shown that arsenate is differentially inhibiting to some phytoplankton species . This observed variance in sensitivity is sufficient to cause a marked change in species composition and succession of dominant species in arsenic - treated assemblages with a potential for impact upon carbon transfer between trophic levels , even though estimates of community biomass and productivity indicate no change .