Spatial contrast in phytoplankton, bacteria and microzooplankton grazing between the eutrophic Yellow Sea and the oligotrophic South China Sea

Yafeng ZHANG; Xutao WANG; Kedong YIN

doi:10.1007/s00343-018-6259-x

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Spatial contrast in phytoplankton, bacteria and microzooplankton grazing between the eutrophic Yellow Sea and the oligotrophic South China Sea

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- Spatial contrast in phytoplankton, bacteria and microzooplankton grazing between the eutrophic Yellow Sea and the oligotrophic South China Sea
- Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 36, Issue 1, Pages: 92-104(2018)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China
  2.Key Laboratory of Marine Resources and Coastal Engineering in Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510006, China
  3.Scientific Institute of Pearl River Water Resources Protection, Guangzhou 510000, China
- Author bio：
  
  YIN Kedong, yinkd@mail.sysu.edu.cn
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-018-6259-x
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- Received：20 September 2016，
  
  Accepted：22 November 2016，
  
  Online First：22 February 2017，
  
  Published：2018-01
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Yafeng ZHANG, Xutao WANG, Kedong YIN. Spatial contrast in phytoplankton, bacteria and microzooplankton grazing between the eutrophic Yellow Sea and the oligotrophic South China Sea[J]. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2018, 36(1): 92-104.
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Yafeng ZHANG, Xutao WANG, Kedong YIN. Spatial contrast in phytoplankton, bacteria and microzooplankton grazing between the eutrophic Yellow Sea and the oligotrophic South China Sea[J]. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2018, 36(1): 92-104. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-018-6259-x.

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Abstract

Three cruises were conducted to investigate the distributions of nutrients

chlorophyll

(Chl

)

new and regenerated primary production

bacterial abundance and production

and microzooplankton grazing rates in the Yellow Sea (YS) and the South China Sea (SCS) during March and May. As the water column moved from low to high temperature

weak to strong stratification and high to low nutrients from the YS to the SCS

Chl-

primary production and bacterial biomass decreased. In contrast

bacterial production

microzooplankton grazing and size preference increased from the YS to the SCS. The increasing grazing activity and decreasing

-ratio from the YS to the SCS suggest roles of regenerated nutrients in the supporting the community increased and more bacteria played important roles in the carbon flow in the oligotrophic SCS than in the eutrophic YS. These variabilities force the classical food chain dominated community in the eutrophic waters into the microbial loop

which is dominant in oligotrophic waters. As nutrients decrease

temperature and grazing activity increase from the YS to the SCS. The increasing ratio of integrated bacterial production to integrated primary production indicates that communities change from autotrophy to heterotrophy and waters change from a carbon sink to a carbon source.

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