Laboratory Data on Ocean Acidification Effects on Phytoplankton Physiology, 2011-2013

NCEI Accession 0121255 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration contains laboratory experiment data collected from 2011-05 31 to 2013-02-07. The data were collected to examine the effects of elevated CO2 levels on phytoplankton physiology and nutritional content for fishery-based food webs. The experiments assessed influences on growth rate, elemental composition, carbohydrates, lipids, and fatty acids.

Use Cases

• Modeling phytoplankton growth rates under varied pH/CO2 conditions based on experimental data.
• Analyzing changes in phytoplankton nutritional content (C, N, P, lipids, fatty acids) for food web impact studies.
• Training predictive models for phytoplankton community structure shifts due to ocean acidification.

Strengths

• Data from controlled laboratory experiments with varied steady-state pH/CO2 conditions.
• Includes multiple physiological and nutritional metrics: growth rate, elemental composition, carbohydrates, lipids, and fatty acids.
• Temporal coverage is explicitly defined from 2011-05-31 to 2013-02-07.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from single-species laboratory cultures, which may not fully represent natural community dynamics.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Laboratory-culture experiments assessing the influence of experimentally-varied steady-state pH/CO2.

Time Range

2011-05-31 to 2013-02-07

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-05 23:10:54.485713; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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