Spatiotemporal variation in community structure of marine benthic ciliates in the Yellow Sea during and after macroalgal and giant jellyfish blooms

Bailing Zhou; Kuidong Xu

doi:10.1007/s00343-016-5115-0

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Spatiotemporal variation in community structure of marine benthic ciliates in the Yellow Sea during and after macroalgal and giant jellyfish blooms

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- Spatiotemporal variation in community structure of marine benthic ciliates in the Yellow Sea during and after macroalgal and giant jellyfish blooms
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 34, Issue 4, Pages: 629-641(2016)
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  1. Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences
  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-016-5115-0
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- Online First：28 January 2016，
  
  Published：2016
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Zhou, B., Xu, K. Spatiotemporal variation in community structure of marine benthic ciliates in the Yellow Sea during and after macroalgal and giant jellyfish blooms., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 34, 629–641 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-016-5115-0
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Zhou, B., Xu, K. Spatiotemporal variation in community structure of marine benthic ciliates in the Yellow Sea during and after macroalgal and giant jellyfish blooms., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 34, 629–641 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-016-5115-0 DOI：

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The annual bloom of the green macroalgal Ulva prolifera from May through July since 2008 and another of giant jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai from June through September have been frequent events in the Yellow Sea. However

the patterns of benthic ciliate communities during and after the blooms are still not known. In combination with analyses of benthic environmental factors

we investigated the distribution and community composition of benthic ciliates in the Yellow Sea in July and November 2011. In July

ciliates had high standing crops and diversity in the northern Yellow Sea

and in the inshore area off the southern Shandong Peninsula

where large numbers of green macroalgae accumulated. In November

the abundance

biomass and diversity of ciliates were high in the sea areas off the Shandong Peninsula and Changjiang estuary

where a large quantity of jellyfish occurred in August. Neither the abundance nor the biomass had significant difference between seasons

or between different compartments of the Yellow Sea. The species number

and both Margalef and Shannon-Wiener indices of ciliates were all significantly higher in November than in July. In both seasons

prostomateans and karyorelicteans consistently constituted the first and second most important ciliate groups in biomass; and carnivorous ciliates constituted the primary feeding type in terms of biomass as well as species richness

followed by bacterivores

algivores and omnivores. Compared with that in June 2007 when no macroalgae occurred

the percentage of small-sized bacterivores (e.g. Metacystis spp.

Euplotes spp. and scuticociliates) increased in July 2011. The proportion of carnivorous ciliates increased in November

and this increased dominance of carnivorous ciliates may be a response to the increase in predominance of heterotrophic nanoflagellates

which might in turn be ascribed to an effect of green macroalgal and giant jellyfish blooms in the Yellow Sea.

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