Diel vertical migration of mesozooplankton in the northern Yellow Sea

Ruping GE; Hongju CHEN; Guangxing LIU; Yanzhong ZHU; Qiang JIANG

doi:10.1007/s00343-020-0170-y

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Diel vertical migration of mesozooplankton in the northern Yellow Sea

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- Diel vertical migration of mesozooplankton in the northern Yellow Sea
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 39, Issue 4, Pages: 1373-1386(2021)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
  2.Marine Ecology and Environmental Science Laboratory, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266200, China
  3.National Joint Research Center for Yangtze River Conservation, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
- Author bio：
  
  Hongju CHEN, E-mail:hongjuc@ouc.edu.cn
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s00343-020-0170-y
  CLC：
- Received：23 April 2020，
  
  Accepted：08 June 2020，
  
  Online First：10 October 2020，
  
  Published：2021-07
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Ruping GE, Hongju CHEN, Guangxing LIU, et al. Diel vertical migration of mesozooplankton in the northern Yellow Sea[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2021, 39(4): 1373-1386.
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Ruping GE, Hongju CHEN, Guangxing LIU, et al. Diel vertical migration of mesozooplankton in the northern Yellow Sea[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2021, 39(4): 1373-1386. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-020-0170-y.

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Abstract

The Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass (YSCWM)

one of the most vital hydrological features of the Yellow Sea

causes a seasonal thermocline from spring to autumn. The diel vertical migration (DVM) of zooplankton is crucial to structural pelagic communities and food webs

and its patterns can be affected by thermocline depth and strength. Hence

we investigated zooplankton community succession and seasonal changes in zooplankton DVM at a fixed station in the YSCWM. Annual zooplankton community succession was affected by the forming and fading of the YSCWM. A total of 37 mesozooplankton taxa were recorded. The highest and lowest species numbers in autumn and spring were detected. The highest and lowest total densities were observed in autumn (14 464.1 inds./m

) and winter (3 115.4 inds./m

)

respectively. The DVM of the dominant species showed obvious seasonal variations. When the YSCWM was weak in spring and autumn

most species (e.g.

Paracalanus parvus

Oithona similis

and

Acartia bifilosa

) stayed above the thermocline and vertically migrated into the upper layer.

Calanus sinicus

and

Aidanosagitta crassa

crossed the thermocline and vertically migrated. No species migrated through the stratification in summer

and all of the species were limited above (

P. parvus

and

A. crassa

) or below (

C. sinicus

and

Centropages abdominalis

) the thermocline. The YSCWM disappeared in winter

and zooplankton species were found throughout the water column. Thus

the existence of thermocline influenced the migration patterns of zooplankton. Cluster analyses showed that the existence of YSCWM resulted in significant differences between zooplankton communities above and below the thermocline.

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