Effects of some representative petroleum refinery effluent compounds on photosynthesis and growth of natural marine phytoplankton assemblages: Part 1—cresols |
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| Authors: | WH Thomas SS Rossi DLR Seibert |
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| Institution: | Institute of Marine Resources, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA |
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| Abstract: | The effects of cresols on the photosynthesis and growth of natural marine phytoplankton assemblages from the Scripps Pier at La Jolla, California, USA were measured. In two experiments, in which dinoflagellates were the dominant algae, photosynthesis (measured by 14C uptake) was inhibited at concentrations > 100 μg litre?1 and the concentration giving half-maximal photosynthesis was 10,000 μg litre?1. In a third experiment, in which diatoms were dominant, photosynthesis was not inhibited until levels > 10,000 μg litre?1 were reached and the half-maximal concentration was 20,000 μg litre?1. These experiments suggested that dinoflagellates were more sensitive to cresols than diatoms. However, the reverse was true in an experiment using cultures. In a long-term growth experiment (natural assemblages from the Scripps Pier), only a level of 88,000 μg litre?1 completely inhibited growth. There was a two-day lag in growth at 8500 μg litre?1, but the algae recovered and grew as well as the controls which contained no cresols. This experiment was started with a mixed diatom-dinoflagellate-microflagellate population but only the diatoms grew. High concentrations of cresols (> 900 μg litre?1) resulted in a decrease in the diatom Skeletonema costatum, compared with the controls. Otherwise there was no selection for resistant species. In these experiments, cresols were measured by extraction with methylene chloride from seawater followed by measurement by UV absorption. In all experiments cresol levels decreased with time. This was attributed to uptake by phytoplankton and bacterial degradation. |
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