HI PH-IVE

Historical and current pHytoplankton interactions with viruses: Emiliania huxleyi case study

Coordinatore	MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM    more  Organization address address: The Laboratory, Citadel Hill city: PLYMOUTH postcode: PL1 2PB contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Charlotte Cognome: Davies Email: send email Telefono: +441752 633205 Fax: +441752 633102
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	221˙606 €
EC contributo	221˙606 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-05-01   -   2015-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM  Organization address address: The Laboratory, Citadel Hill city: PLYMOUTH postcode: PL1 2PB contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Charlotte Cognome: Davies Email: send email Telefono: +441752 633205 Fax: +441752 633102	UK (PLYMOUTH)	coordinator	221˙606.40

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The major problem of the global ecology is the abrupt increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in Earth's atmosphere. As one of the most critical effects of burning fossil carbon by human action is the rapid acidification of the oceans. Indeed the CO2 diffuses into the surface layers of the global ocean, including causing a significant decrease in pH and carbonate ion (CO3-). These acidic conditions make biomineralization of calcareous shell increasingly difficult, threatening biodiversity with extinction of calcifying plankton ecosystems, with all the brutal feedback effects on regional and global climate. In particular, coccolithophores, haptophytes microalgae covered with small calcareous scales occur today ~30% of pelagic carbonates, a central process of the carbon cycle between the different compartments of the biosphere. How will coccolithophores react to abrupt climate changes? More our understanding of how biodiversity will respond to abrupt climate changes is limited by a fundamental lack of understanding of eukaryotic ocean biodiversity, and rates of biodiversity change. This project aims to understand the complexity and rate of adaptation in Emiliania huxleyi, a dominant coccolithophore in modern oceans, through the study of its ecological distribution and genetic diversity in space and time. The study takes into account viruses that are fundamentally associated with E. huxleyi life history, regulating population dynamics, representing a significant biotic stress factor with dramatic effects on phytoplankton biodiversity. Metabarcoding methods will be applied in contrasting environments in the North Atlantic Ocean through series of historical samples dating from 1960. The overall goal of this study is to understand genetic adaptabilities in a key functional assemblage of the pelagic ecosystem; abilities that could enable organisms to adapt and survive in multi-stress environments, virus infection and increasing acidification of oceanic water masses.'