Latitudinal variation of phytoplankton communities in the western Arctic Ocean
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Title
- Latitudinal variation of phytoplankton communities in the western Arctic Ocean
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Author(s)
- Joo, Hyoung Min; Lee, Sang H.; Jung, Seung Won; Dahms, Hans-Uwe; Lee, Jin Hwan
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- Jung, Seung Won(정승원)
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Alternative Author(s)
- 정승원
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Publication Year
- 2012-12-15
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Abstract
- Recent studies have shown that photosynthetic eukaryotes are an active and often dominant component of Arctic phytoplankton assemblages. In order to explore this notion at a large scale, samples were collected to investigate the community structure and biovolume of phytoplankton along a transect in the western Arctic Ocean. The transect included 37 stations at the surface and subsurface chlorophyll a maximum (SCM) depths in the Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea, and Canadian Basin from July 19 to September 5, 2008. Phytoplankton (> 2 mu m) were identified and counted. A cluster analysis of abundance and biovolume data revealed different assemblages over the shelf, slope, and basin regions. Phytoplankton communities were composed of 71 taxa representing Dinophyceae, Cryptophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Dictyochophyceae, Prasinophyceae, and Prymnesiophyceae. The most abundant species were of pico- to nano-size at the surface and SCM depths at most stations. Nano- and pica-sized phytoplankton appeared to be dominant in the Bering Sea, whereas diatoms and nano-sized plankton provided the majority of taxon diversity in the Bering Strait and in the Chukchi Sea. From the western Bering Sea to the Bering Strait, the abundance, biovolume, and species diversity of phytoplankton provided a marked latitudinal gradient towards the central Arctic. Although pico- and nano-sized phytoplankton contributed most to cell abundance, their chlorophyll a contents and biovolumes were less than those of the larger micro-sized taxa. Micro-sized phytoplankton contributed most to the biovolume in the largely ice-free waters of the western Arctic Ocean during summer 2008. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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ISSN
- 0967-0645
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URI
- https://sciwatch.kiost.ac.kr/handle/2020.kiost/3392
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DOI
- 10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.06.004
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Bibliographic Citation
- DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY, v.81-84, pp.3 - 17, 2012
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Publisher
- PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
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Subject
- BERING-SEA; ORGANIC-CARBON; CHUKCHI SEAS; FOOD WEBS; DYNAMICS; WATER; CLIMATE; SUMMER; VARIABILITY; NUTRIENT
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Keywords
- Phytoplankton; Arctic; Biodiversity; Abundance; Biovolume; Canadian Basin; Bering and Chukchi Seas
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Type
- Article
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Language
- English
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Document Type
- Article
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