Regional disparities of phytoplankton in relation to different water masses in the Northwest Pacific Ocean during the spring and summer of 2017

Gengming Lin; Yanghang Chen; Jiang Huang; Yanguo Wang; Youyin Ye; Qingliang Yang

doi:10.1007/s13131-019-1511-6

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Gengming Lin, Yanghang Chen, Jiang Huang, Yanguo Wang, Youyin Ye, Qingliang Yang. Regional disparities of phytoplankton in relation to different water masses in the Northwest Pacific Ocean during the spring and summer of 2017[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(6): 107-118. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1511-6

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Gengming Lin, Yanghang Chen, Jiang Huang, Yanguo Wang, Youyin Ye, Qingliang Yang. Regional disparities of phytoplankton in relation to different water masses in the Northwest Pacific Ocean during the spring and summer of 2017[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(6): 107-118. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1511-6

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Gengming Lin, Yanghang Chen, Jiang Huang, Yanguo Wang, Youyin Ye, Qingliang Yang. Regional disparities of phytoplankton in relation to different water masses in the Northwest Pacific Ocean during the spring and summer of 2017[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(6): 107-118. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1511-6

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Regional disparities of phytoplankton in relation to different water masses in the Northwest Pacific Ocean during the spring and summer of 2017

doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1511-6

Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, China

Funds: The Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of Ocean under contract No. 201305027; the project sponsored by the Scientific Research Foundation of Third Institute of Oceanography, SOA under contract No. 2017009.

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Corresponding author: E-mail: wangyanguo@tio.org.cn
Received Date: 2019-06-12
Accepted Date: 2019-11-07

Available Online: 2020-12-28

Publish Date: 2020-06-25

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The West Pacific Ocean is considered as the provenance center of global marine life and has the highest species diversity of numerous marine taxa. The phytoplankton, as the primary producer at the base of the food chain, effects on climate change, fish resources as well as the entire ecosystem. However, there are few large-scale surveys covering several currents with different hydrographic characteristics. This study aimed to explore the relationships between the spatio-temporal variation in phytoplankton community structure and different water masses. A total of 630 water samples and 90 net samples of phytoplankton were collected at 45 stations in the Northwest Pacific Ocean (21.0°–42.0°N, 118.0°–156.0°E) during spring and summer 2017. A total of 281 phytoplankton taxa (>5 μm) belonging to 61 genera were identified in the study area. The distribution pattern of the phytoplankton community differed significantly both spatially and temporally. The average abundances of phytoplankton in spring and summer were 797.07×10² cells/L and 84.94×10² cells/L, respectively. Whether in spring or summer, the maximum abundance always appeared in the northern transition region affected by the Oyashio Current, where nutrients were abundant and diatoms dominated the phytoplankton community; whereas the phytoplankton abundance was very low in the oligotrophic Kuroshio region, and the proportion of dinoflagellates in total abundance increased significantly. The horizontal distribution of phytoplankton abundance increased from low to high latitudes, which was consistent with the trend of nutrient distributions, but contrary to that of water temperature and salinity. In the northern area affected by the Oyashio Current, the phytoplankton abundance was mainly concentrated in the upper 30 m of water column, while the maximum abundance often occurred at depths of 50–75 m in the south-central area affected by the Kuroshio Current. Pearson correlation and redundancy analysis (RDA) showed that phytoplankton abundance was significant negatively correlated with temperature and salinity, but positively correlated with nutrient concentration. The phytoplankton community structure was mainly determined by nutrient availability, especially the N:P ratio.
- phytoplankton,
- regional disparity,
- species composition,
- spatial distribution,
- Northwest Pacific Ocean

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