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Benthic Primary Production Budget of a Caribbean Reef Lagoon (Puerto Morelos, Mexico)

BenthicPrimaryProductionBudgetofaCaribbeanReef Lagoon(PuertoMorelos,Mexico) MalikS.Naumann1*,CarinJantzen1¤a,AndreasF.Haas1¤b,RobertoIglesias-Prieto2,ChristianWild1,3 1CoralReefEcologyGroup(CORE),LeibnizCenterforTropicalMarineEcology(ZMT),Bremen,Germany,2UnidadAcademicaPuertoMorelos,InstitutodeCienciasdel MaryLimnolog?a,UniversidadNacionalAutonomadeMexico(UNAM),Cancun,QuintanaRoo,Mexico,3FacultyofBiologyandChemistry,UniversityofBremen,Bremen, Germany Abstract High photosynthetic benthic primary production (P) represents a key ecosystem service provided by tropical coral reef systems.However,benthicPbudgetsofspecificecosystemcompartmentssuchasmacrophyte-dominatedreeflagoonsare still scarce. To address this, we quantified individual and lagoon-wide net (Pn) and gross (Pg) primary production by all dominantfunctionalgroupsofbenthicprimaryproducersinatypicalmacrophyte-dominatedCaribbeanreeflagoonnear PuertoMorelos(Mexico)viameasurementofO2fluxesinincubationexperiments.Thephotosyntheticallyactive3Dlagoon surfaceareawasquantifiedusingconversionfactorstoallowextrapolationtolagoon-widePbudgets.Findingsrevealed thatlagoon2Dbenthiccoverwasprimarilycomposedofsand-associatedmicrophytobenthos(40%),seagrasses(29%)and macroalgae(27%),whileseagrassesdominatedthelagoon3Dsurfacearea(84%).IndividualPgwashighestformacroalgae andscleractiniancorals(87and86mmolO2m22specimenaread21,respectively),howeverseagrassescontributedhighest (59%)tothelagoon-widePg.MacroalgaeexhibitedhighestindividualPnrates,butseagrassesgeneratedthelargestfraction (51%) of lagoon-wide Pn. Individual R was highest for scleractinian corals and macroalgae, whereas seagrasses again providedthemajorlagoon-wideshare(68%).Thesefindingscharacterisetheinvestigatedlagoonasanetautotrophiccoral reefecosystemcompartmentrevealingsimilarPcomparedtoothermacrophyte-dominatedcoastalenvironmentssuchas seagrassmeadowsandmacroalgaebeds.Further,highlagoon-wideP(Pg:488andPn:181mmolO2m22lagoonaread21 ) andoverallPg:R(1.6)indicatesubstan