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Oceanic phytoplankton are a potentially important source of benzenoids to the remote marine atmosphere

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Abstract Benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes can contribute to hydroxyl reactivity and secondary aerosol formation in the atmosphere. These aromatic hydrocarbons are typically classified as anthropogenic air pollutants, but there is growing evidence of biogenic sources, such as emissions from plants and phytoplankton. Here we use a series of shipborne measurements of the remote marine atmosphere, seawater mesocosm incubation experiments and phytoplankton laboratory cultures to investigate potential marine biogenic sources of these compounds in the oceanic atmosphere. Laboratory culture experiments confirmed marine phytoplankton are a source of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes and in mesocosm experiments their sea-air fluxes varied between seawater samples containing differing phytoplankton communities. These fluxes were of a similar magnitude or greater than the fluxes of dimethyl sulfide, which is considered to be the key reactive organic species in the marine atmosphere. Benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes fluxes were observed to increase under elevated headspace ozone concentration in the mesocosm incubation experiments, indicating that phytoplankton produce these compounds in response to oxidative stress. Our findings suggest that biogenic sources of these gases may be sufficiently strong to influence atmospheric chemistry in some remote ocean regions.
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hal-03345312 , version 1 (20-10-2021)

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Manon Rocco, Erin Dunne, Maija Peltola, Neill Barr, Jonathan Williams, et al.. Oceanic phytoplankton are a potentially important source of benzenoids to the remote marine atmosphere. Communications Earth & Environment, 2021, 2 (1), ⟨10.1038/s43247-021-00253-0⟩. ⟨hal-03345312⟩
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