Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 was isolated from Xisha Islands, South China Sea (111°45.000′ E, 16°28.471′ N) by our laboratory (Wang et al., 2022b). The preliminary culture was carried out by incubating the strain in 1500-mL vertical glass bubble column photobioreactors (6.0 cm × 60 cm) containing seawater medium composed of 17.6 mM NaNO₃, 0.69 mM K₂HPO₄·3H₂O, 0.48 mM NaHCO₃, 11.7 µM FeCl₃·6H₂O, 11.7 µM Na₂EDTA·2H₂O, 0.91 µM MnCl₂·4H₂O, 0.08 µM ZnSO₄·7H₂O, 0.04 µM CoCl₂·6H₂O, 0.04 µM CuSO₄·5H₂O and 0.02 µM Na₂MoO₄·2H₂O in 28‰ seawater at 25°C and a continuous illumination (Wang et al., 2022b). The culture medium was aerated with ambient air (400 μatm, LC) and elevated CO₂ (1000 μatm, HC) at 1 L min^-1 continuously for pre-acclimation incubation for 8 days. The concentration of CO₂ at 1000 μatm was attained by mixing pure CO₂ with air.

To explore the combined effects of OA and UVR on Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730, we used the pre-acclimation incubation algal strains to implement a 2×3 factorial coupling test for 16-day batch culture. There were 18 vertical glass bubble column photobioreactors (algae in the log phase with an initial OD₇₅₀ of 0.3 in 1.2 L seawater per photobioreactor) divided into six treatment groups with three independent biological replicates ( Table 1 ). The first factor was pCO₂ level: LC and HC, which represented current atmospheric pCO₂ and the estimated values at 2100, respectively. The second factor was UVR treatment. For the control treatment (PAR), fluorescent lamps at 180 μmol photons m^-2 s^-1 provided the light and no further UV lamp was used. Concerning UVA treatment (PAR+UVA), the UV-A lamp used in the experiment has a power of 8 W, a spectral emission range of 280-400 nm and a peak value of 365 nm. The outer surface of the UV-A lamp was covered with a quartz glass tube and the ultraviolet transmittance is 95%, forming an integrated submersible lamp (Beijing Zhongyi Boten Technology Co., Ltd., China). For UVB treatment (PAR+UVB), the UV-B lamp with a power of 8 W, a spectral emission range of 280-320 nm, and a peak of 308 nm was wrapped with a cellulose acetate film to remove short-wave radiation below 290 nm. The UV-B lamp tube also had a quartz glass tube with a UV transmittance of 95% to form an integrated diving lamp (Beijing Zhongyi Boteng Technology Co., Ltd., China). UV dose was measured using an LS125 multi-probe UV radiation meter (Shenzhen Linshang Technology Co., Ltd., China). During the experiment, UVA and UVB diving lamps were separately inserted into the medium ( Supplementary Figure S1 ), and the irradiation time was set to 90 min and 80 min, and the corresponding total radiation doses were 149.91 kJ m^-2 and 7.47 kJ m^-2, respectively. From the first day, the algae medium was treated with UV radiation every 48 h until the end of the 16-day culture cycle.

The parameters of carbonate systems in seawater were monitored at the beginning of the batch culture. The temperature and salinity were detected by TES-1332A digital luminance meter and handheld salinity refractometer, respectively. A portable pH meter was used to measure the pH after calibrated by three standard buffer solutions (pH 4.02, 7.00 and 9.21). The total alkalinity (TA) was measured by acid standard solution titration with methyl orange as an indicator based on Chinese Standard GB/T8538-1995. According to the known values of temperature, salinity, pH, TA and pCO₂ in culture mediums, HCO³⁻, CO 3 2 − and CO₂ were attained by CO₂SYS software (Pierrot et al., 2006).

The growth of the strain was measured by biomass dry weight (DW) at the beginning and the end of the test. A 5-mL culture sample was filtered through a pre-weighed 0.45-μm membrane filter, washed three times with deionized water, and dried at 80 °C overnight to reweighed. Furthermore, we calculated the relative growth rate (RGR, % d^-1) based on the following formula:

wherein B₁₆ and B₀ are the DW on day 16 and day 0, respectively.

FMS-2 Pulse Modulation Fluorometer (Hansha scientific instruments, China) was used to determine the photosynthetic performances of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 on day 16. A red light was considered as the modulated light. The Fv/Fm was measured at saturation pulse after 30 min of dark adaption. The rapid light curve (RLC) was determined under 7 levels of actinic light (0, 200, 400, 580, 870, 980 and 1220 μmol photons m^-2 s^-1). The relative electron transport rates (rETR), maximum electron transport rate (rETR_max), apparent photosynthetic efficiency (α) and saturation light intensity (I _k) are important chlorophyll fluorescence parameters that were calculated by the following equation:

where ФPSII is the effective photosynthetic quantum yield; the values of 0.84 and 0.5 represent the ambient light quanta absorbed by the sample and the ratio of absorbed light energy to the total incident light energy, respectively; A stands for the light intensity (μmol photons m^-2 s^-1). RLC was obtained by the fitting formula (Eilers and Peeters, 1988):

where I is the actinic light level (μmol photons m-2 s-1) and a, b and c were constants.

The algae cultures at day 16 were collected by centrifugation at 8 000 r min^-1 for 5 min and washed with deionized water three times. After freeze-drying (FD-1-50, Beijing Boyikang Laboratory Instrument Co., Ltd., China), the algal powder was obtained and kept at -20 °C for further biochemical experiments.

A 50-mg sample was used for total carbon and nitrogen analysis by Elemental Vario PYRO CUBE (Elemental company, Germany) equipped with a 120-position autosampler. The samples were decomposed by catalytic oxidation in a pure oxygen atmosphere at 850 °C. The non-detecting gas in the generated gas was removed, and the detected gas components were detected by a thermal conductivity detector after being separated by a special adsorption column. Helium was used as a carrier and purge gas. Acetanilide was considered as the standard sample and the results were indicated as a percentage relative to the DW of the sample.

A 40-mL algal sample was collected by centrifugation on day 16 and rapidly resuspended in 80 ml of 0.1 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.5). An ultrasonic disruptor (Sonicator S-4000, Misonix Company, USA) was employed to broke cells at 4 °C. The crushing procedure was under 3 pulses with 5-s intervals at a power of 20 W for 5 min. Superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), carbonic anhydrase (CA) and nitrate reductase (NR) activities were investigated by ELISA Kits (Hengyuan biological, Shanghai, China), and the operations followed the manufacturer’s instructions.

Data are presented as mean and standard deviations of triplicate experiments (n = 3) using a statistical system (origin 8.5). One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was adopted to decide the differences of treatments under the same pCO₂ levels but at different UVR conditions, and two-way ANOVA was performed to analyze interactive effects between pCO₂ levels and UVR on carbonate system parameters, RGR, photosynthesis performances, biochemical compositions and related enzyme activities. The statistical program IBM SPSS statistics 25 was adopted to analyze data. Tukey’s honestly significant difference (HSD) analysis was employed to conduct post hoc comparisons and p< 0.05 showed a significant difference.

The carbonate system parameters of each treatment were measured at the beginning of the batch culture period ( Table 2 ). OA had a significant impact on pH, TA, CO₂, HCO 3 − and CO 3 2 − of seawater (p<0.01), while UVR or interaction between OA and UVR (p>0.05) had no significant effect ( Supplementary Table S1 ). The average pH levels dropped from 8.25 to 7.86 with the pCO₂ level increasing from 400 to 1000 μatm. In comparison with the LC treatment, the average TA and CO 3 2 − concentration decreased from 2444.58- 2447.51 μmol kg^-1 to 2361.18-2363.13 μmol kg^-1 and from 267.86-275.27 μmol kg^-1 to 119.97-122.72 μmol kg^-1, respectively. Nevertheless, the concentrations of CO₂ and HCO 3 − under HC conditions were ~16.55 and ~2068.06 μmol kg^-1, which were 66.47% and 12.82%, respectively, higher than LC treatments.

Two-way ANOVA showed that OA or UVR alone had significant effects on RGR in Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730, while their interactions had no significant effect ( Supplementary Table S2 ). Figure 1 showed that the elevated CO₂ enhanced the RGR of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 by 50.79%, 31.89% and 35.41%, respectively, under PAR, PAR+UVA and PAR+UVB. Compared with PAR and PAR+UVA treatments, PAR+UVB represented inhibition effects on the RGR of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 regardless of CO₂ treatments. In particular, the RGR was the lowest with values of 11.84% day^-1 under LC+PAR+UVB treatment.

We observed the effects of CO₂ concentrations and UVR on the RLC in Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 as shown in Figure 2 . The photosynthetic parameters of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 estimated by RLC were shown in Figure 3 . OA and UVR had significant interactive effects on Fv/Fm, rETRm and I _k, and no interactive effect existed on α ( Supplementary Table S3 ). Under HC treatment, the Fv/Fm significantly increased from 0.06-0.24 (LC) to 0.29-0.43, and α from 0.01-0.02 (LC) to 0.05-0.07, and rETRm was from 5.84-11.30 μmol electrons m^-2 s^-1 (LC) to 10.69-12.45 μmol electrons m^-2 s^-1. Furthermore, UVB significantly deteriorated the positive effects on Fv/Fm and α compared to PAR control treatment under both HC and LC. However, under LC treatment, I _k was significantly promoted from 153.39-237.07 μmol electrons m^-2 s^-1 (HC) to 235.52-783.04 μmol electrons m^-2 s^-1 and the lowest value of I _k was at HC+PAR.

OA had significant effects on the contents of Chl a and Car, but the interaction between OA and UVR had no significant effect ( Supplementary Table S4 ). Compared to the PAR treatment, both Chl a and Car decreased under other UVR treatments regardless of LC and HC ( Figures 4A, B ). In addition, Chl a and Car contents were higher in HC than those in LC for all UVR treatments. Further, the highest contents of Chl a and Car were 5.76 and 1.41 mg g^-1 at HC+PAR treatment, while the lowest contents were 0.72 and 0.20 mg g^-1 at LC+PAR+UVB treatment. For PE and PC, only OA had a significant effect on their contents in Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 ( Supplementary Table S4 ). Concerning LC treatments, the elevated pCO₂ induced the accumulation of PE and PC among all UVR treatments ( Figures 4C, D ). Under HC treatment, the contents of PE significantly increased from 15.40-17.76 mg g^-1 (LC) to 28.83-36.88 mg g^-1, and PC from 4.82-6.15 mg g^-1 (LC) to 7.84-8.30 mg g^-1.

The contents of carbohydrate, protein and total lipids were all significantly affected by OA under either PAR, PAR+UVA, or PAR+UVB treatments ( Supplementary Table S5 ). Under LC, the carbohydrate content of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 significantly decreased by 23.05%, 20.35% and 36.05%, respectively at PAR, PAR+UVA and PAR+UVB conditions under HC ( Figure 5A ). The highest carbohydrate accumulation was found at HC+PAR (43.03% DW) among the six treatments. In contrast, under LC conditions, the contents of protein and total lipids increased from 20.72-25.54% DW (HC) to 29.34-34.24 % DW and from 8.86-13.16 % DW (HC) to 11.49-15.32 % DW, respectively ( Figures 5B, C ). In addition, UVR treatment was significant for the contents of carbohydrate, protein and total lipids ( Supplementary Table S5 ). On the other hand, the contents of protein and total lipids were significantly promoted by UVB and their highest values of 34.25 and 15.32 % DW were observed at LC+PAR+UVB.

Two-way ANOVA indicated that both OA and UVR had significant effects on total carbon, nitrogen contents and TC/TN ratios, and there was also a significant interaction between them ( Supplementary Table S6 ). Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 accumulated TC under HC compared to LC treatments, with values of 36.99, 33.89 and 33.06 % DW at PAR, PAR+UVA or PAR+UVB conditions, respectively ( Figure 6A ). Moreover, PAR+UVA and PAR+UVB treatments significantly decreased TC content regardless of pCO₂ levels when compared with PAR conditions. Conversely, it is apparent that the elevated CO₂ significantly decreased the TN contents from 4.49-5.38 % DW (LC) to 2.32-3.52 % DW ( Figure 6B ). It is interesting to note that, compared to PAR treatments, PAR+UVA and PAR+UVB treatments significantly increased TN by 9.3% and 19.76%, respectively, under LC, while TN content also increased by 8.4% and 51.72%, respectively, under HC. As a result, the change in TC/TN ratios showed a similar trend to TC ( Figure 6C ). Under HC treatments, the TC/TN ratios ranged from 9.39 to 15.93, which was 63.87%-97.88% higher than the algae incubated under LC conditions (5.73-8.05). Additionally, PAR+UVA and PAR+UVB treatments conducted negative effects on TC/TN ratios.

The antioxidant enzyme activity, assessed using SOD and CAT, was shown in Figures 7A, B . The SOD activity of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 was significantly influenced by UVR, while both OA and UVR and their interactions had significant effects on CAT activity ( Supplementary Table S7 ). For SOD, the values under LC were significantly reduced by 38.01%, 46.02% and 54.94% on basis of HC under PAR, PAR+UVA and PAR+UVB treatments, respectively. In addition, the changing trend of OA and UVR on CAT activity of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 was similar to that of SOD. On the whole, compared with the cell cultured under LC conditions, the CAT activity of algae under HC treatments was promoted from 0.35-2.23 IU mg^-1 DW to 0.58-3.40 IU mg^-1 DW. OA and UVR and their interactions also obviously affected the activities of CA and NR ( Supplementary Table S7 ). The activities of CA and NR were higher in HC than in LC irrespective of UVR treatments ( Figures 7C, D ). Furthermore, the highest activities of CA and NR were pronounced in HC+PAR treatments, which showed values of 5.28 and 0.16 IU mg^-1 DW, respectively.

The phenols content under six treatments is presented in Figure 8 . Supplementary Table S8 indicated that both OA and UVR significantly affected phenols content and they also had an interactive effect. Under HC treatments, the phenols contents of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 were 2.09, 5.14 and 6.59 mg g^-1 under PAR, PAR+UVA and PAR+UVB conditions, respectively, decreasing to 1.85, 1.90 and 3.20 mg g^-1 under LC treatments, respectively.

OA has been reported to boost the growth and photosynthesis performances of some algae species, such as the genus Ulva (Xu et al., 2017), Pyropia yezoensis (Bao et al., 2019) and Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis (Wei et al., 2021), which was similar with our results. The elevated CO₂ levels significantly promoted the growth rate of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 resulted from the alteration of the carbon concentrating mechanisms (CCMs). As we all know, most micro or macroalgae could use CCMs to meet the photosynthetic demand for inorganic carbon (Li et al., 2020a). Higher CO₂ concentration alleviated CO₂ limitation and decreased pH in the ocean, leading to reductions in algae CCM activities (Li et al., 2020c). Meanwhile, the down-regulation of CCMs could save up to 20% of energy and allow more remaining energy for biomass accumulation and photosynthesis rate enhancement (Zhou et al., 2022). Conversely, Li et al. (2020a) stated that the elevated CO₂ had obvious negative growth impacts on Porphyra haitanensis. Furthermore, there was no significant effect on the economic seaweed Sargassum fusiforme under normal cultivation (Jiang et al., 2019). Thus, these diverse differences in algae were probably caused by species-specific as well as the combination of OA and other environmental factors. Moreover, the present study found that elevated CO₂ positively increased the photosynthetic performances of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730, reflecting in higher Fv/Fm, α and rETRm coupling with increased contents of Chl a, Car, PE and PC, which could result from multiple acclimation mechanisms against OA. It is of note, that higher CO₂ concentration enhanced the carboxylation activity of RuBisCO but decreased its oxygenating activity, leading to better photosynthetic activity, and greater rETRm and α values in PSII were helpful for carbon fixation (Sheng et al., 2022). Fv/Fm represents the maximum potential of algae for photosynthesis and is also an important indicator to reflect the physiological status of algae. The higher Fv/Fm occurred as a response of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 to OA, which conformed to the described in Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis under HC (Wei et al., 2021).

As earlier mentioned, enhanced photosynthetic performances and carbon fixation induced the formation of photosynthetic products, such as carbohydrate, protein and total lipids, via the Calvin cycle (Chen et al., 2018). Algae cells coped with environmental stress by regulating their physiological processes, so the increase of carbohydrate and decrease of protein and total lipids might be due to an acclimation response that sustained Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 to respond to OA, as some literature had previously reported. Wei et al. (2021) postulated that the CO₂ elevation caused soluble carbohydrate enhancement and protein decline in economically important red macroalga Gracilariopsis lemaneiformis. Similar phenomena were observed in several algae including Pyropia haitanensis (Chen et al., 2017), Saccharina latissimi (Olischläger et al., 2014) and Ulva rigida (Gordillo et al., 2001), resulting from down-regulated genes in photosynthetic pathway after carbohydrate accumulation. Moreover, previous evidence had shown that increasing CO₂ concentrations would induce changes in C and N accumulation processes, which resulted from CA and NR enzyme activities (Chen et al., 2017). In our study, Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 showed higher CA and NR activities compared to LC conditions, as well as higher TC and TC/TN ratios. It is possible that, on one hand, CA played a significant role in the transformation of CO₂ and HCO 3 − , on the other hand, NR activated NO 3 − uptake and N assimilation, and both of them favored C and N constituent enhancement at HC levels, which were in parallel with the literature reported by García-Sánchez et al. (1994) and Gordillo et al. (2001). Furthermore, the ratio of TC/TN was kept within certain balance limits under HC, leading to an increased synthesis of carbohydrate and pigments but a decrease in protein.

The rapid growth and increased photosynthesis of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 led to greater ROS production, which potentially caused oxidative damage. SOD and CAT participate in the first line of defense against oxidative damage, which can reduce or scavenge the toxicity of free radicals and peroxides, and can improve the tolerance of algae to the environment under stress (Xia et al., 2018). The current study demonstrated that the elevated CO₂ promoted the increase of SOD and CAT activities, which was similar to the investigation of dinoflagellate Karenia mikimotoi under OA (Zhang et al., 2022). The marked increase in SOD activity in the algae might be attributed to the formation of H₂O₂, and the increased CAT effectively worked in the decomposition of H₂O₂ to H₂O and O₂ at the same time, protecting algae cells from OA stress (Wu et al., 2015). In addition, higher phenols and Car contents under HC also helped to quench ROS, eliminating peroxyl radicals and stabilizing intracellular oxidative homeostasis.

UVR is known to have negative effects on algae, such as destructing macromolecules, affecting the uptake of nutrients, inhibiting photosynthesis, reducing the growth rate, stimulating ROS formation and decreasing the primary production (Li et al., 2017). However, the present study showed that UVA had no significant effects on the growth of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730, on the other hand, UVB significantly inhibited its growth as compared to PAR treatments. Such a phenomenon was also described in Phaeocystis globosa (Chen and Gao, 2011) and Gracilaria lemaneiformis (Xu and Gao, 2010). UVA slightly promoted the RGR of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 may be due to the limited PAR intensity used in this study, so the energy of UVA could be directly absorbed by Chl a and phycobiliproteins as light energy for algal photosynthetic carbon fixation (Bhandari and Sharma, 2006). The decreased growth rate caused by UVB can be the cost of cell damage repair (Otogo et al., 2021). The growth of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 was closely related to photosynthesis parameters and photosynthetic pigments. Overall, UVA slightly promoted photosynthesis while UVB significantly inhibited photosynthesis. UVB caused a significant reduction of Fv/Fm and rETRm, while UVA resulted in much less positive stimulation regardless of LC and HC conditions. Also, Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 significantly increased the values of I _k after exposure to UVR. It can be estimated that significant photoinhibition was observed in algae upon UVB emergency, most likely associated with the destruction of PSII proteins. In addition, UVB blocks de novo synthesis of the D1 protein, affecting the function of cells to respond to functional impairment of PSII, thus inhibiting photosynthetic activities (Garcia-Gomez et al., 2016). Photosynthesis depends on the light-harvesting characteristics of chlorophyll, so pigment contents provide important elements related to the status of the photosynthetic apparatus (Kumar et al., 2018). As earlier mentioned, decreased contents of Chl a and Car were detected in Karenia mikimotoi under UVR (Halac et al., 2014), which corresponded to our results. Also, Figueroa et al. (2010) reported that UVR damaged and decreased the pigments of Gracilaria conferta. In brief, UVR negatively affects photosynthetic pigments by degrading or inhibiting enzymes involved in their biosynthetic pathways (Álvarez Gómez et al., 2019). There were no obvious differences in PE and PC contents among PAR, PAR+UVA and PAR+UVB, which may be attributed to the algae resilience to UVR exposure.

Marine algae can repair UV-induced damage by a variety of mechanisms, many of which involve changes in the content of bioactive compounds, such as carbohydrate, protein, and total lipids. Carbohydrate contents decreased slightly under UVA and UVB treatments, that was because UVR caused damage to thylakoids of the chloroplast, and the generation of free radicals led to a content decrease (Álvarez Gómez et al., 2019). With respect to protein content, UVB significantly promoted its accumulation, which was in accordance with the results in Porphyra haitanensis (Otogo et al., 2021), Scenedesmus acutus (Fu et al., 2021) and Microcystis flos-aquae (El-Sheekh et al., 2021), resulting from protein damage and the cellular demands required to maintain homeostasis and photosynthetic processes. On the other hand, UV radiation-induced protein accumulation protected algae from UVR-promoted peroxidative processes. In addition, UVR also positively induced the production of total lipids. Casazza et al. (2015) reported that UV treatment led to increasing the lipid content by 29.5% for Arthrospira (Spirulina) platensis compared to the control run, which agreed with the opinion that microalgae can accumulate lipids under stress conditions. It had been widely accepted that alterations in TC and TN contents of algae under UV conditions were indicative of the coupling between C and N absorption and assimilation processes, as well as C:N balance (Narvarte et al., 2020). Meanwhile, UVR could negatively affect the activities of CA and NR, suppressing the carbon and nutrients uptaking (Li et al., 2017). In our test, changes in TC and TN corresponded to alterations in carbohydrate, protein and total lipids contents, leading to a decrease in TC/TN under UVR treatments.

Literature reported that UVR induced the accumulation of ROS, and marine algae developed strategies to block UVR damage and preserve cellular integrity (Rastogi et al., 2020). Additionally, UVR increased the activities of SOD and CAT, thereby regulating homeostatic balance in algal cells against UV-induced oxidative damage. UVR also induced the production of antioxidants, such as phenolic compounds, which helped to counteract the detrimental effects of UVR, and such phenomena were also observed in Ulva rigida (Cabello-Pasini et al., 2011) and Acanthophora spicifera (Pereira et al., 2019).

Recent research showed the effects of OA on phytoplankton were modulated by many global change factors, especially UVR (Li et al., 2022a). Revealing the complicated interactions between OA and UVR is crucial for predicting the effects of climate change on marine algae. Additionally, the combined effects of OA and UVR were different from species to species. For instance, it has been established that elevated CO₂ may act synergistically to enhance the harmful effects on Emiliania huxleyi under UVR or both together to stimulate the growth of primary producers (Gao et al., 2009). Moreover, the elevated CO₂ partly counteracted UVR-induced damage on Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Li et al., 2012), Chaetoceros curvisetus (Chen et al., 2015) and Dunaliella tertiolecta (Garcia-Gomez et al., 2014). Our study about the combined effects of OA and UVR on biochemical compositions and photosynthetic performances of Rhodosorus sp. SCSIO-45730 stated the deleterious effects of UVR on algae were significantly ameliorated by OA, especially in terms of Fv/Fm, rETRm, I _k, TC, TN, TC/TN, phenols contents, and the activities of CAT, CA and NR. OA helped to relieve the UVR-related photochemical inhibition and repair UV-induced damage, that is to say, the elevated CO₂ endowed algae with higher resistance to UVR. Such results might result from the species-specific CCM efficiency of different phytoplankton, which could affect the energy balance of algae cells. In detail, OA reduced CCM activity and released additional energy to help promote the repair of UVR damage, especially UVB, which was in line with the response of Ulva linza exposure to both OA and UVR (Ma et al., 2019).