Environmental characteristics of annual pico/nanophytoplankton blooms along the Qinhuangdao Coast

Xihua CAO; Zhiming YU; Zaixing WU; Fangjin CHENG; Liyan HE; Yongquan YUAN; Xiuxian SONG; Jianle ZHANG; Yongfeng ZHANG; Wanlei ZHANG

doi:10.1007/s00343-017-5216-4

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Environmental characteristics of annual pico/nanophytoplankton blooms along the Qinhuangdao Coast

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- Environmental characteristics of annual pico/nanophytoplankton blooms along the Qinhuangdao Coast
- Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 36, Issue 2, Pages: 281-292(2018)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
  2.Qinhuangdao Marine Environmental Monitoring Central Station, State Oceanic Administration(SOA), Qinhuangdao 066002, China
- Author bio：
  
  YU Zhiming, zyu@qdio.ac.cn
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s00343-017-5216-4
  CLC：
- Received：06 September 2015，
  
  Accepted：16 October 2015，
  
  Online First：09 November 2016，
  
  Published：2018-03
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Xihua CAO, Zhiming YU, Zaixing WU, et al. Environmental characteristics of annual pico/nanophytoplankton blooms along the Qinhuangdao Coast[J]. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2018, 36(2): 281-292.
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Xihua CAO, Zhiming YU, Zaixing WU, et al. Environmental characteristics of annual pico/nanophytoplankton blooms along the Qinhuangdao Coast[J]. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2018, 36(2): 281-292. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-017-5216-4.

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Abstract

Blooms of some pico/nanophytoplankton have occurred frequently along the Qinhuangdao coast since 2009

and it is necessary to identify the critical environmental factors inducing them. In this study

variations in the physical and nutrient characteristics of the seawater were analyzed following the development of local blooms in 2013. The local environmental characteristics were also compared with those of the Changjiang River estuary

China

and the Long Island estuaries in the USA

which are also prone to blooms of special algal species. In Qinhuangdao the local water temperature varied seasonally and rose above 15℃ in 2013 early summer

coincident with the water discoloration. The salinity was more than 28 with a variation range of

3 throughout the year. Our results suggest that the physical conditions of the Qinhuangdao coastal area were suitable for the explosive proliferation of certain pico/nanophytoplankton

e.g.

Aureococcus anophagefferens

. The water supporting the bloom was not in a condition of serious eutrophication

but there were relatively high concentrations of reduced nitrogen (especially ammonium)

which acted as an important nitrogen source for the pico/nanophytoplankton bloom. There was also a large gap between total nitrogen (TN) and dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN). Although the phosphate concentration was relatively low

there was no evidence of phosphorus limitation to the growth of pico/nanophytoplankton during bloom events.

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