scholarly journals Annual patterns in phytoplankton phenology in Antarctic coastal waters explained by environmental drivers

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (7) ◽  
pp. 1651-1668
Author(s):  
Maria A. Leeuwe ◽  
Alison L. Webb ◽  
Hugh J. Venables ◽  
Ronald J.W. Visser ◽  
Mike P. Meredith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Environmental Drivers ◽  
Annual Patterns

Intra-seasonal and inter-annual patterns in the demographics of sand lance and response to environmental drivers in the North Pacific

2019 ◽  
Vol 617-618 ◽  
pp. 221-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
MR Baker ◽  
ME Matta ◽  
M Beaulieu ◽  
N Paris ◽  
S Huber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Pacific ◽  
Environmental Drivers ◽  
Sand Lance ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Pacific ◽  
Annual Patterns

scholarly journals Spatial and temporal trends in order richness of marine phytoplankton as a tracer for the exchange zone between coastal and open waters

2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Jung ◽  
R. Bijkerk ◽  
H.W. Van Der Veer ◽  
C.J.M. Philippart
Keyword(s):  
Particulate Matter ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Wadden Sea ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Marine Phytoplankton ◽  
Environmental Drivers ◽  
Suspended Particulate ◽  
Phytoplankton Communities ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Trends

Quantifying exchange of particulate matter between coastal and open waters is an important and often unresolved issue. Here, we apply phytoplankton order richness as an innovative marine tracer to identify the geographic position of a coastal exchange zone in the SE North Sea, including its variability in time and space. Previous observations on dynamics of suspended particulate matter accumulation resulted in a hypothesized boundary between coastal waters (including the Wadden Sea) and open North Sea waters, the so-called ‘line-of-no-return’. Our study along two transects (Terschelling, Noordwijk) in the Dutch coastal zone showed seasonality patterns in phytoplankton order richness, both for diatoms and flagellates. The coastal Wadden Sea was found to be clearly different from the open North Sea, implying that seasonality in Wadden Sea phytoplankton is at least partly driven by local environmental conditions. Seasonality in flagellates was found to be more uniform than seasonality in diatoms. Stations in the coastal North Sea to a distance of 10 km (Terschelling) to 20 km (Noordwijk) from the shore appeared to be at the inside of the ‘line-of-no-return’. Our findings indicate that this approach is a useful aid in exploring mixing of particulate matter between coastal and open waters and to study the responses of phytoplankton communities to environmental drivers.

Seasonal shift in community pattern of periphytic ciliates and its environmental drivers in coastal waters of the Yellow Sea, northern China

2014 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Henglong Xu
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Variation ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Yellow Sea ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Northern China ◽  
The Yellow Sea ◽  
Environmental Drivers ◽  
Species Number ◽  
Community Structures ◽  
Ciliate Species

Ciliates are a primary component of the periphyton microfauna and play a crucial role in the functioning of microbial food webs. Seasonal variation in community structures of periphytic ciliate communities was studied, using glass slides as an artificial substratum, during a 1-year cycle (August 2011–July 2012) in coastal waters of the Yellow Sea, northern China. Samples were collected monthly at a depth of 1 m from four sampling stations. A total of 144 ciliate species representing 78 genera, 43 families, 17 orders and eight classes were recorded. Among these species, 31 distributed in all four seasons, while 11, 11, 13 and two forms occurred only in spring, summer, autumn and winter season, respectively. The species number and total abundance peaked in spring and autumn, with minimum values in winter. Ciliate community structures differed significantly between seasons, and were significantly correlated with the changes in environmental variables, especially temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen (DO) and the nutrients. Of 36 dominant species (top 15 ranked contributors in each season), nine (e.g. Pseudovorticella paracratera, Trochilia minuta and Zoothamnium sp.) were significantly correlated with pH, DO or nutrients. Species richness, evenness and diversity measures were significantly correlated with temperature, pH, DO or soluble reactive phosphates. Results demonstrated that periphytic ciliates exhibited a clear seasonal variation in community structures in response to environmental conditions and potentially might be used as a robust bioindicator for assessing environmental quality status in coastal waters.

scholarly journals Environmental drivers of plankton communities in coastal waters: the central role of temperature revealed by co-occurrence networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Trombetta ◽  
Francesca Vidussi ◽  
Cécile Roques ◽  
Sébastien Mas ◽  
Marco Scotti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Web ◽  
Community Composition ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
Plankton Community ◽  
Trophic Levels ◽  
Environmental Drivers ◽  
Coastal Zones ◽  
Future Global Warming ◽  
Plankton Communities

Abstract To identify the environmental factors that drive plankton community composition and structure in coastal waters, a shallow northwestern Mediterranean lagoon was monitored from winter to spring in two contrasting years. The campaign was based on high-frequency recordings of hydrological and meteorological parameters and weekly samplings of nutrients and the plankton community. The collected data allowed the construction of correlation networks, which revealed that water temperature was the most important factor governing community composition, structure and succession at different trophic levels, suggesting its ubiquitous food web control. Temperature favoured phytoplanktonic flagellates (Cryptophyceae, Chrysophycea, and Chlorophyceae) and ciliates during winter and early spring. In contrast, it favoured diatoms, dinoflagellates, phytoplankton < 6 µm and aloricate Choreotrichida during spring. The secondary drivers were light, which influenced phytoplankton, and wind, which may regulate turbidity and the nutrient supply from land or sediment, thus affecting benthic species such as Nitzschia sp. and Uronema sp. or salinity-tolerant species such as Prorocentrum sp. The central role of temperature in structuring the co-occurrence network suggests that future global warming could deeply modify plankton communities in shallow coastal zones, affecting whole-food web functioning.

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