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Characteristics of the phytoplankton community and its response to Dan’ao River input in Daya Bay in summer*
Copy editor: YIN Bo
Received date: 2020-01-21
Request revised date: 2020-03-30
Online published: 2020-04-01
Supported by
National Natural Science Foundation of China(31971432)
National Natural Science Foundation of China(41506161)
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)(GML2019ZD0405)
Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province, China(2017B0303014052)
Guangdong marine economy promotion projects Fund(GDOE2019A32)
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Phytoplankton are the primary producer of aquatic ecosystem, and their community structure directly affects the health and safety of aquatic ecosystem. River input is one of the most important impacts reflecting the human activities on Daya Bay waters, which influences the phytoplankton community structure by changing environmental factors such as temperature, salinity, turbidity, nutrients, and so on. We investigated water environmental factors and phytoplankton community structure in Daya Bay in the summer of 2015 when large amount of river input happened. The dynamic change of phytoplankton community structure under the influence of the strong river input and its response to environmental factors were analyzed. The results showed that stratified waters with low salinity, high temperature, declined transparency, and enhanced nutrient concentrations formed at the Dan’ao River Mouth due to river input, while the waters in the middle and opening of Daya Bay were greatly affected by seawater intrusion. Freshwater input was the main external source of nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients in Daya Bay, and both freshwater input and invasive seawater were both important source of silicate. Nutrient structure was highly imbalanced in Daya Bay in summer, and dissolved inorganic phosphorus was the important limited factor of the growth of phytoplankton. Diatoms were the dominant group of phytoplankton in Daya Bay in summer 2015, and three dominant species included Thalassiosira minima, Skeletonema costatum and Thalassiosira rotula were identified. Cluster analysis showed that phytoplankton community in Daya Bay in summer 2015 could be mainly divided into three types. Type Ⅰ: Algae assemblage occurred at the Dan’ao River Mouth with high abundance of phytoplankton and bloom of Thalassiosira minima under influence of freshwater discharge; Type Ⅱ: algae assemblage dominated by Skeletonema costatum observed at the top and middle Daya Bay under subordinate influence of river plume; Type Ⅲ: algae assemblage with low phytoplankton abundance and no obvious dominant species mainly occurred in the opening of Daya Bay under the influence of sea water. The water environments at the Dan’ao River Mouth were beneficial to the growth and bloom of tiny chain-formed Thalassiosira minima, and the bloom occurred in the environmental gradient of temperature 30 ~ 31 °C, salinity 17 ‰ ~ 31 ‰ and water transparency 0.45 ~ 1.2 m. The difference in the utilization of different nutrients by diatoms and the subsequent settlement of biogenic detritus and particles resulted in a slight decrease of Si∶N ratio and a significant increase of N∶P ratio in the area where algae bloomed. The distribution of phytoplankton abundance was extremely uneven at the Dan’ao River Mouth due to the bloom of single species under the influence of freshwater discharge, which led to the decrease of Shannon-Wiener index and Pielou’s evenness index. The two indexes both increased from the Dan’ao River Mouth to the opening of Daya Bay.
Key words: Daya Bay; phytoplankton; river input; community structure; nutrients structure
ZHANG Liming , TAN Yehui , LI Jiajun , HUANG Xiaoping , LIU Jiaxing . Characteristics of the phytoplankton community and its response to Dan’ao River input in Daya Bay in summer*[J]. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 2020 , 39(5) : 43 -54 . DOI: 10.11978/2020012
图2 大亚湾夏季海水温盐分布特征a. 表层盐度; b. 底层盐度; c. 表层温度; d. 底层温度。审图号为GS(2019)4343 Fig. 2 Distributions of salinity and water temperature in Daya Bay in summer 2015. (a) salinity of surface water; (b) salinity of bottom water; (c) temperature of surface water, and (d) temperature of bottom water |
图4 大亚湾夏季海水营养盐浓度分布a. 表层溶解无机氮; b. 底层溶解无机氮; c. 表层溶解无机氮; d. 底层溶解无机氮; e. 表层硅酸盐; f. 底层硅酸盐。审图号为GS(2019)4343 Fig. 4 Distribution of nutrients in Daya Bay in summer 2015. (a) DIN in surface water; (b) DIN in bottom water; (c) DIP in surface water; (d) DIP in bottom water; (e) DSi in surface water, and (f) DSi in bottom water |
图5 大亚湾夏季浮游植物丰度及群落组成分布a. 表层水体; b. 底层水体。饼图大小表示各站位浮游植物丰度大小, 组成表示不同浮游植物群或物种的贡献比例。审图号为GS(2019)4343 Fig. 5 Distribution of phytoplankton abundance and composition in Daya Bay. (a) surface water; (b) bottom water. Pie size indicates the total abundance at each site, and composition indicates abundance contributions of different phytoplankton groups or species |
表1 2015年夏季大亚湾优势种及优势度Tab. 1 Dominant species and corresponding dominance in summer 2015 |
优势种 | 学名 | 优势度 |
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极小海链藻 | Thalassiosira minima | 0.42 |
中肋骨条藻 | Skeletonema costatum | 0.25 |
圆海链藻 | Thalassiosira rotula | 0.04 |
图6 大亚湾夏季营养盐结构及分布a. 表层水体Si:N; b. 底层水体Si:N; c. 表层水体N:P; d. 底层水体N:P。审图号为GS(2019)4343 Fig. 6 Distribution of different nutrients structure in Daya Bay in summer 2015. (a) Si:N ratio of surface water; (b) Si:N ratio of bottom water; (c) N:P ratio of surface water, and (d) N:P ratio of bottom water |
图7 大亚湾夏季浮游植物群落类型及其分布a. 带p值(单位: %)的聚类分析, 结果表明夏季大亚湾浮游植物群落可主要分为3类, 分别用绿色三角形、红色圆形和蓝色方形表示。站位名-S表示该站位表层水体, 站位名-B表示该站位底层水体。聚类树分支处左侧红色数值为AU (approximately unbiased)值, 右侧绿色数值为BP (bootstrap probability)值, 中间灰色数值表示聚类层次, 蓝色矩形框表示AU≥95%的集合; b. 不同类型浮游植物群落在表层水体分布; c. 不同类型浮游植物群落在底层水体分布。审图号为GS(2019)4343 Fig. 7 Distribution of different types of phytoplankton composition in Daya Bay in summer 2015. (a) cluster analysis with p values (units: %) showing phytoplankton community could mainly be classified into 3 types, which are represented by green triangle, red circular and blue square. Values at branches include AU p-values (left) and BP values (right), and gray values in the middle represent the clustering hierarchy. Clusters with AU ≥ 95 % are indicated by the rectangles; (b) surface water, and (c) bottom water |
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