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The seasonal growth of Codium bursa J. Agardh was examined in relation to ambient and internal nutrient concentrations to elucidate whether the low tissue nutrient concentrations observed are an intrinsic feature of this species or reflect nutrient-limited growth. Growth rates were rather low (mean 2 SE: 2.2 * 0.4 X 1 0 ~ d-'; doubling time = 1.24 * 0.1 yr), and were significantly correlated to seasonal changes in ambient and internal nutrient concentrations, suggesting nutrient, probably P, limitation. T h ~ s uggestion IS supported by the rather high atomic tissue C/P ratios (1712), compared to C/N ratios (31.8) observed in summer. This was confirmed by experimentally injecting nutrients into the internal lumen of the plants in situ, which resulted in a doubling of growth rate, photosynthetic efficiency, and a reduction in light compensation irradiance (39.6 and 29.9 pm01 photons m-* S-' in control and fertilised specimens, respectively). These results prov~de, along wlth the strong correlation between growth rate and ambient and internal phosphorus concentrations, clear evidence of a tight nutrient (likely phosphorus), rather than light or temperature, control of C. bursa growth rates. Hence, even inherently slow-growing organisms in the oligotrophic Mediterranean may be resource limited.

Seasonal growth of Codium bursa, a slow-growing Mediterranean macroalga:in situ experimental evidence of nutrient limitation