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THE AZOLLA STORY
HOW AN AMAZING PLANT CHANGED
OUR CLIMATE 50 MILLION YEARS AGO
(SECOND HALF OF THE TALK)
DR JONATHAN BUJAK
PART 5
the Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX)
IODP Leg 302 aka the Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX)
the drillship Vidar Viking sailed into the Arctic
supported by Norwegian and Russian icebreakers
ACEX was a great success
It cored the
Lomonosov Ridge
close to the North Pole
ACEX
Lomonosov Ridge
North Pole
ACEX
…..recovering
420m of cored section
including the crucial
50 million year old interval
when CO2 fell so abruptly
and the results
amazed everyone!
more than 90% of the
50 million year old section
was filled with the
remains of Azolla
and the Azolla fossils
occur as undisturbed
laminated layers
mudstone layer
Azolla layer
Azolla layer
layers of undisturbed Azolla remains that gently sank to the sea floor
and they also occur within
a succession of marine rocks….
…..but Azolla is a freshwater plant
how could it grow
in the middle of the Arctic Ocean?
what do we know about Azolla?
PART 6
we meet Azolla
Azolla is a floating aquatic freshwater fern
the oldest 70 million year old fossils from the Late Cretaceous have identical
morphology to modern forms indicating similar biology and habitat
they have small spongy leaves
and tendrils dangling beneath the leaves in the water
Azolla is one of the fastest growing plant on the planet
doubling its biomass in just 2 to 3 days
and it is widely used in the Far East
as a green biofertilizer to increase rice production
Azolla being grown outdoors in India for cattle fodder
as well as a livestock feed in India and the Far East
but why is it used as a biofertilizer?
and how can it grow so rapidly free-floating
on water without any nutrients from the soil?
the key is Azolla’s
leaf structure
Azolla’s leaves
contain cavities that are
filled with nitrogen
source: Carrapiço, 2002
these provide an enclosed
micro-environment
for the nitrogen-fixing
cyanobacterium Anabaena
source: Carrapiço, 2002
enabling the two organisms to have a mutually beneficial symbiosis
Azolla provides a home for the cyanobacterium Anabaena
which sequesters the nitrogen needed to fertilize Azolla
nitrogen
micro-environment
Azolla’s sporophyte
sporocarps
megasporocarp
megasporocarp’s chamber
megasporocarp’s chamber
fertilization
new sporophyte
and the two organisms remain together during Azolla’s reproductive cycle
so that Anabaena is passed to successive generations via Azolla’s spores
Azolla’s sporophyte
sporocarps
megasporocarp
megasporocarp’s chamber
megasporocarp’s chamber
fertilization
new sporophyte
with the result that they have co-evolved for more than 70 million years
making the Azolla-Anabaena symbiosis extremely efficient
for example, Azolla and Anabaena have complementary photosynthesis
and are therefore able to utilize light from most of the visible spectrum
Azolla contains chlorophyll-a,
chlorophyll-b and coratinoids
whereas Anabaena contains
chlorophyll-a, phycocyanin,
allophycocyanin and phycoerythrin
Azolla-Anabaena is the only known symbiosis in which
the two organisms remain together during the plant’s reproductive cycle
and it was designated a ‘Superorganism’
by Francisco Carrapiço in 2009 *
* Carrapiço, F. 2009. ‘Azolla as a superorganism. Its implication in the symbiotic studies’. In: “Stress Biology”. Seckbach, J. and Grube, M. (Eds). Springer.
cyanobacteria were widespread three billion years ago when the Earth’s atmosphere
was devoid of oxygen – but they had to go ‘underground’ and colonize
anaerobic enviroments when the atmosphere became oxygenated
stromatolites composed of cyanobacteria three billion years ago
Azolla and Anabaena established their symbiotic relationship 70 million years ago –
the oldest evidence is from the Cretaceous Bearpaw Formation of the
Canadian Mackenzie Delta which was characterized by subtropical swamps
dinosaurs rummaging in the soil may have
inadvertently triggered the original symbiosis –
the most successful plant-cyanobacterial
partnership that is know today
resulting in Azolla-Anabaena’s ability
to fix more than 1000 kg of
atmospheric nitrogen per acre per year *
providing a natural biofertilizer in the water
for rice production
* Barke et al. unpublished data
with the nitrogen becoming
available for rapid growth of Azolla
which can then fix up to 6000 kg
of atmospheric carbon per acre per year *
free-floating on water
* unpublshed data, various sources
recent studies also show that
• Azolla can tolerate salinities of up to 5 psu **
(practical salinity units)
• Azolla’s optimum growth is in 20 hours of daylight *
• and its growth is increased by elevated CO2 **
*Barke et al. in press; **Speelman et al. (2009)
so how does this relate
to Arctic events 50 million years ago?
PART 7
THE ARCTIC AZOLLA EVENT
during the Paleocene and early Eocene the Arctic Ocean had an
open marine connection to the Tethyan Ocean via the Turgay Strait
illustration from Barke & Bujak, NATURE, in press
but the connection was severed when the strait closed due to
tectonic uplift at the end of the early Eocene 50 million years ago
50 Ma
illustration from Barke & Bujak, NATURE, in press
resulting in enclosure of the Arctic Ocean,
basin stratification and bottom-water anoxia
50 Ma
illustration from Barke & Bujak, NATURE, in press
similar to today’s Black Sea
illustration from Barke & Bujak, NATURE, in press
today’s Arctic Ocean has relatively low salinity compared to the world’s oceans
due to freshwater input from its large catchment area…..
…..and 50 million years ago higher temperatures and rainfall increased river discharge
resulting in surface freshwater plumes and low salinity across the basin
illustration from Barke & Bujak, NATURE, in press
with a net runoff into the Arctic Ocean estimated
at 15 million cubic kilometres per year
Source: Speelman (2010)
this freshened surface waters across the entire Arctic Ocean
to values of 0 to 6 psu*
overlapping Azolla’s maximum salinity tolerance of 5 psu**
* Barke & Bujak (in press); ** Speelman (2010)
Azolla
so Azolla was able to rapidly spread across the surface
of the Arctic Ocean due to its symbiosis with Anabaena…..
Azolla
CO2 drawdown
…..Anabaena provided the nitrogen needed to fertilize Azolla
enabling it to sequester large volumes of CO2 into its plant biomass
and bottom-water anoxia resulted in the absence of benthic organisms
that normally recycle organic material up through the water column
anoxia
so that the Azolla plants with their sequestered CO2
were deposited on the sea floor as a succession of
undisturbed laminated sediments
local anoxia
geochemical studies indicate that the Azolla interval
is a petroleum source rock that may extend beneath the entire Arctic Ocean*
CO2 drawdown
petroleum source rock
* Ruediger Stein, Alfred Wegener Institute, 2006
local anoxiapetroleum source rock
…..so that Azolla has the potential to provide
a gas-prone source of energy beneath Arctic
and a biofuel from modern Azolla
the Azolla event lasted for almost a million years
It ended when the Turgay Strait re-opened
providing us with an model for the Azolla Event
illustration from Barke & Bujak, NATURE, in press
50 million years ago
Azolla sequestered
enormous quantities
of atmospheric carbon
triggering
the onset
of climatic
cooling
which resulted in today’s icehouse world
with glaciation at both poles
as atmospheric CO2 progressively fell…..
during the Azolla event (50 Ma)
though the Miocene (14 Ma)
into the Pliocene (2 Ma)
and the Pleistocene - including the Last Glacial Maximum (14,000 BP)
and today’s Holocene interglacial…..
…..as featured in National Geographic May 2005
“The Great Green North: Was the icy Arctic once a warm soup of life?”
Azolla
as well as NATURE
June 2006
“The Cenozoic Arctic Ocean:
from greenhouse to icehouse
in 55 million years” *
* Brinkhuis, Bujak et al., 2006
…..and the New York Times in November 2004
Need a picture of NYT page
So did a single plant called Azolla
really change the Earth’s climate from a
greenhouse to icehouse state?
the answer has implications for past
and present climate change
which is crucially important today
Contact Dr Jonathan Bujak
for more details about modern and fossil Azolla
and its potential to help us
mitigate climate change today
info@azollabiosystems.co.uk

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Azolla event talk june 2014 part 2

  • 1. THE AZOLLA STORY HOW AN AMAZING PLANT CHANGED OUR CLIMATE 50 MILLION YEARS AGO (SECOND HALF OF THE TALK) DR JONATHAN BUJAK
  • 2. PART 5 the Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX)
  • 3. IODP Leg 302 aka the Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) the drillship Vidar Viking sailed into the Arctic supported by Norwegian and Russian icebreakers
  • 4. ACEX was a great success It cored the Lomonosov Ridge close to the North Pole ACEX Lomonosov Ridge North Pole ACEX
  • 5. …..recovering 420m of cored section including the crucial 50 million year old interval when CO2 fell so abruptly
  • 7. more than 90% of the 50 million year old section was filled with the remains of Azolla
  • 8. and the Azolla fossils occur as undisturbed laminated layers
  • 9. mudstone layer Azolla layer Azolla layer layers of undisturbed Azolla remains that gently sank to the sea floor
  • 10. and they also occur within a succession of marine rocks….
  • 11. …..but Azolla is a freshwater plant how could it grow in the middle of the Arctic Ocean?
  • 12. what do we know about Azolla?
  • 13. PART 6 we meet Azolla
  • 14. Azolla is a floating aquatic freshwater fern the oldest 70 million year old fossils from the Late Cretaceous have identical morphology to modern forms indicating similar biology and habitat
  • 15. they have small spongy leaves and tendrils dangling beneath the leaves in the water
  • 16. Azolla is one of the fastest growing plant on the planet doubling its biomass in just 2 to 3 days
  • 17. and it is widely used in the Far East as a green biofertilizer to increase rice production
  • 18. Azolla being grown outdoors in India for cattle fodder as well as a livestock feed in India and the Far East
  • 19. but why is it used as a biofertilizer?
  • 20. and how can it grow so rapidly free-floating on water without any nutrients from the soil?
  • 21. the key is Azolla’s leaf structure
  • 22. Azolla’s leaves contain cavities that are filled with nitrogen source: Carrapiço, 2002
  • 23. these provide an enclosed micro-environment for the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Anabaena source: Carrapiço, 2002
  • 24. enabling the two organisms to have a mutually beneficial symbiosis Azolla provides a home for the cyanobacterium Anabaena which sequesters the nitrogen needed to fertilize Azolla nitrogen micro-environment
  • 25. Azolla’s sporophyte sporocarps megasporocarp megasporocarp’s chamber megasporocarp’s chamber fertilization new sporophyte and the two organisms remain together during Azolla’s reproductive cycle so that Anabaena is passed to successive generations via Azolla’s spores
  • 26. Azolla’s sporophyte sporocarps megasporocarp megasporocarp’s chamber megasporocarp’s chamber fertilization new sporophyte with the result that they have co-evolved for more than 70 million years making the Azolla-Anabaena symbiosis extremely efficient
  • 27. for example, Azolla and Anabaena have complementary photosynthesis and are therefore able to utilize light from most of the visible spectrum Azolla contains chlorophyll-a, chlorophyll-b and coratinoids whereas Anabaena contains chlorophyll-a, phycocyanin, allophycocyanin and phycoerythrin
  • 28. Azolla-Anabaena is the only known symbiosis in which the two organisms remain together during the plant’s reproductive cycle and it was designated a ‘Superorganism’ by Francisco Carrapiço in 2009 * * Carrapiço, F. 2009. ‘Azolla as a superorganism. Its implication in the symbiotic studies’. In: “Stress Biology”. Seckbach, J. and Grube, M. (Eds). Springer.
  • 29. cyanobacteria were widespread three billion years ago when the Earth’s atmosphere was devoid of oxygen – but they had to go ‘underground’ and colonize anaerobic enviroments when the atmosphere became oxygenated stromatolites composed of cyanobacteria three billion years ago
  • 30. Azolla and Anabaena established their symbiotic relationship 70 million years ago – the oldest evidence is from the Cretaceous Bearpaw Formation of the Canadian Mackenzie Delta which was characterized by subtropical swamps
  • 31. dinosaurs rummaging in the soil may have inadvertently triggered the original symbiosis – the most successful plant-cyanobacterial partnership that is know today
  • 32. resulting in Azolla-Anabaena’s ability to fix more than 1000 kg of atmospheric nitrogen per acre per year * providing a natural biofertilizer in the water for rice production * Barke et al. unpublished data
  • 33. with the nitrogen becoming available for rapid growth of Azolla which can then fix up to 6000 kg of atmospheric carbon per acre per year * free-floating on water * unpublshed data, various sources
  • 34. recent studies also show that • Azolla can tolerate salinities of up to 5 psu ** (practical salinity units) • Azolla’s optimum growth is in 20 hours of daylight * • and its growth is increased by elevated CO2 ** *Barke et al. in press; **Speelman et al. (2009)
  • 35. so how does this relate to Arctic events 50 million years ago?
  • 36. PART 7 THE ARCTIC AZOLLA EVENT
  • 37. during the Paleocene and early Eocene the Arctic Ocean had an open marine connection to the Tethyan Ocean via the Turgay Strait illustration from Barke & Bujak, NATURE, in press
  • 38. but the connection was severed when the strait closed due to tectonic uplift at the end of the early Eocene 50 million years ago 50 Ma illustration from Barke & Bujak, NATURE, in press
  • 39. resulting in enclosure of the Arctic Ocean, basin stratification and bottom-water anoxia 50 Ma illustration from Barke & Bujak, NATURE, in press
  • 40. similar to today’s Black Sea illustration from Barke & Bujak, NATURE, in press
  • 41. today’s Arctic Ocean has relatively low salinity compared to the world’s oceans
  • 42. due to freshwater input from its large catchment area…..
  • 43. …..and 50 million years ago higher temperatures and rainfall increased river discharge resulting in surface freshwater plumes and low salinity across the basin illustration from Barke & Bujak, NATURE, in press
  • 44. with a net runoff into the Arctic Ocean estimated at 15 million cubic kilometres per year Source: Speelman (2010)
  • 45. this freshened surface waters across the entire Arctic Ocean to values of 0 to 6 psu* overlapping Azolla’s maximum salinity tolerance of 5 psu** * Barke & Bujak (in press); ** Speelman (2010) Azolla
  • 46. so Azolla was able to rapidly spread across the surface of the Arctic Ocean due to its symbiosis with Anabaena….. Azolla
  • 47. CO2 drawdown …..Anabaena provided the nitrogen needed to fertilize Azolla enabling it to sequester large volumes of CO2 into its plant biomass
  • 48. and bottom-water anoxia resulted in the absence of benthic organisms that normally recycle organic material up through the water column anoxia
  • 49. so that the Azolla plants with their sequestered CO2 were deposited on the sea floor as a succession of undisturbed laminated sediments
  • 50. local anoxia geochemical studies indicate that the Azolla interval is a petroleum source rock that may extend beneath the entire Arctic Ocean* CO2 drawdown petroleum source rock * Ruediger Stein, Alfred Wegener Institute, 2006
  • 51. local anoxiapetroleum source rock …..so that Azolla has the potential to provide a gas-prone source of energy beneath Arctic
  • 52. and a biofuel from modern Azolla
  • 53. the Azolla event lasted for almost a million years It ended when the Turgay Strait re-opened providing us with an model for the Azolla Event illustration from Barke & Bujak, NATURE, in press
  • 54. 50 million years ago Azolla sequestered enormous quantities of atmospheric carbon
  • 56. which resulted in today’s icehouse world with glaciation at both poles as atmospheric CO2 progressively fell…..
  • 57. during the Azolla event (50 Ma)
  • 60. and the Pleistocene - including the Last Glacial Maximum (14,000 BP)
  • 61. and today’s Holocene interglacial…..
  • 62. …..as featured in National Geographic May 2005 “The Great Green North: Was the icy Arctic once a warm soup of life?” Azolla
  • 63. as well as NATURE June 2006 “The Cenozoic Arctic Ocean: from greenhouse to icehouse in 55 million years” * * Brinkhuis, Bujak et al., 2006
  • 64. …..and the New York Times in November 2004 Need a picture of NYT page
  • 65. So did a single plant called Azolla really change the Earth’s climate from a greenhouse to icehouse state?
  • 66. the answer has implications for past and present climate change which is crucially important today
  • 67. Contact Dr Jonathan Bujak for more details about modern and fossil Azolla and its potential to help us mitigate climate change today info@azollabiosystems.co.uk