Living coccolithophores in the western Pacific Ocean with mesoscale eddies

Danyue Huang; Haijiao Liu; Jun Sun; Yuqiu Wei; Liuyang Li; Guicheng Zhang; Laxman Pujari

doi:10.1007/s13131-021-1780-8

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Danyue Huang, Haijiao Liu, Jun Sun, Yuqiu Wei, Liuyang Li, Guicheng Zhang, Laxman Pujari. Living coccolithophores in the western Pacific Ocean with mesoscale eddies[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2021, 40(6): 111-128. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1780-8

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Danyue Huang, Haijiao Liu, Jun Sun, Yuqiu Wei, Liuyang Li, Guicheng Zhang, Laxman Pujari. Living coccolithophores in the western Pacific Ocean with mesoscale eddies[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2021, 40(6): 111-128. doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1780-8

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Living coccolithophores in the western Pacific Ocean with mesoscale eddies

doi: 10.1007/s13131-021-1780-8

Danyue Huang^{1, 2},
Haijiao Liu^{1, 2},
Jun Sun^{2, 3
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Yuqiu Wei^{1, 2},
Liuyang Li^{1, 2},
Guicheng Zhang^{2, 3},
Laxman Pujari^{2, 3}

1.
Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266200, China
2.
Research Centre for Indian Ocean Ecosystem, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, China
3.
Tianjin Key Laboratory of Marine Resources and Chemistry, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, China

Funds: The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41876134, 41676112 and 41276124; the University Innovation Team Training Program for Tianjin under contract No. TD12-5003; the Tianjin 131 Innovation Team Program under contract No. 20180314; the Changjiang Scholar Program of Chinese Ministry of Education under contract No. T2014253.

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Corresponding author: E-mail: phytoplankton@163.com
Received Date: 2019-12-25
Accepted Date: 2020-04-27

Available Online: 2021-06-29

Publish Date: 2021-06-01

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Living coccolithophores (LCs) are regarded as a group of calcifiers and play important roles in global carbon cycle. This study used microscopic observations of LCs in the western Pacific Ocean to investigate their community structure and biodiversity, especially to test whether local physical traits (mesoscale eddies) could explain their biogeographic distributions during autumn of 2017. The coccolithophore calcite inventory based on carbon-volume transformation was estimated in this study. A total of 28 taxa of coccospheres and 19 types of coccoliths were identified from 161 samples. Gephyrocapsa oceanica was the most predominant species in all the coccolithophore community, followed by Florisphaera profunda, Emiliania huxleyi, Umbilicosphaera sibogae, Gladiolithus flabellatus and Umbellosphaera tenuis. The abundance of coccospheres and coccoliths ranged from 0 to 26.8×10³ cells/L and from 0 to 138.5×10³ coccoliths/L, averaged at 4.2×10³ cells/L and 10.9×10³ coccoliths/L, respectively. This study indicated that coccolithophore community in the survey area can be clustered into four groups. Three ecological niches of coccolithophores were characterized by their vertical profiles and multivariate statistical analysis. Coccolithophore abundance and species composition were remarkably different among warm-eddy region, G. oceanica dominated warm-eddy region, while F. profunda dominated warm-eddy and none-eddy region. The average values of estimated particulate inorganic carbon, particulate organic carbon were 0.197 μg/L and 0.140 μg/L, respectively. The current field study widened the dataset of coccolithophores in western Pacific Ocean.
- living coccolithophores,
- western Pacific Ocean,
- carbon cycle,
- mesoscale eddy,
- warm eddy,
- cold eddy

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