Decadal variations in diatoms and dinoflagellates on the inner shelf of the East China Sea, China

Rediat Abate; Yahui Gao; Changping Chen; Junrong Liang; Wenhua Mu; Demeke Kifile; Yanghang Chen

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Decadal variations in diatoms and dinoflagellates on the inner shelf of the East China Sea, China

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- Decadal variations in diatoms and dinoflagellates on the inner shelf of the East China Sea, China
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 35, Issue 6, Pages: 1374-1386(2017)
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  1. School of Life Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science Xiamen University
  2. College of Natural Science Arba Minch University
  3. Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystem College of the Environment & Ecology Xiamen University
  4. Department of Zoological Sciences Addis Ababa University
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-017-6029-1
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Abate, R., Gao, Y., Chen, C. et al. Decadal variations in diatoms and dinoflagellates on the inner shelf of the East China Sea, China., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 35, 1374–1386 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-017-6029-1
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Abate, R., Gao, Y., Chen, C. et al. Decadal variations in diatoms and dinoflagellates on the inner shelf of the East China Sea, China., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 35, 1374–1386 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-017-6029-1 DOI：

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Abstract

Diatoms and dinoflagellates are two major groups of phytoplankton that flourish in the oceans

particularly in coastal zone and upwelling systems

and their contrasting production have been reported in several world seas. However

this information is not available in the coastal East China Sea (ECS). Thus

to investigate and compare the decadal trends in diatoms and dinoflagellates

a sediment core

47 cm long

was collected from the coastal zone of the ECS. Sediment chlorophyll-a (Chl-a)

phytoplankton-group specific pigment signatures of diatoms and dinoflagellates

and diatom valve concentrations were determined. The sediment core covered the period from 1961 to 2011 AD. The chlorophyll-a contents ranged from 2.32 to 73 µg/g dry sediment (dw) and averaged 9.81 µg/g dw. Diatom absolute abundance ranged from 29152 to 177501 valve/gram (v/g) dw and averaged 72137 v/g dw. Diatom valve and diatom specific pigment marker concentrations were not significantly correlated. Peridinin increased after the 1980s in line with intensified use of fertilizer and related increases in nutrient inputs into the marine environment. The increased occurrence of dinoflagellate dominance after the 1980s can be mostly explained by the increase in nutrients. However

the contribution of dinoflagellates to total phytoplankton production (Chl-a) decreased during the final decade of this study

probably because of the overwhelming increase in diatom production that corresponded with the construction of the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) and related light availability. Similarly

the mean ratio of fucoxanthin/peridinin for the period from 1982 to 2001 was 6% less than for 1961 to 1982

while the ratio for 2001 to 2011 was 45.3% greater than for 1982 to 2001. The decadal variation in the fucoxanthin/peridinin ratio implies that dinoflagellate production had been gradually increasing until 2001. We suggest that the observed changes can be explained by anthropogenic impacts

such as nutrient loading and dam construction.

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