Plankton Community Respiration and Particulate Organic Carbon in the Kuroshio East of Taiwan

Chung Chi Chen*, Pei Jie Meng*, Chih Hao Hsieh, Sen Jan

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摘要

Biological organic carbon production and consumption play a fundamental role in the understanding of organic carbon cycling in oceans. However, studies on them in the Kuroshio, the western boundary current in the North Pacific Ocean, are scarce. To better understand the variations of plankton community respiration (CR) and particulate organic carbon (POC), eight cruises. which covered four seasons over a 2-year period, were surveyed across the Kuroshio at the KTV1 transect east of Taiwan. Spatially, a coastal uplift of isotherms (i.e., onshore lifting and offshore deepening) was observed along the KTV1 transect. During the uplift, the cold and nutrient-rich deep waters shoal to shallow water and enhance phytoplankton growth, resulting in higher values of phytoplankton, POC, and plankton CR on the onshore side. In this study, phytoplankton was dominated by picophytoplankton including Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, and picoeukaryotes. Plankton CR was low, and its mean depth-normalized integrated rate (the upper 100 m water depth) ranged from 7.07 to 22.27 mg C m−3 d−1, to which the picophytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria contributed the most. The mean depth-normalized integrated value of POC ranged from 12.7 to 21.6 μg C L−1. POC is mainly associated with phytoplankton biomass with a mean carbon ratio of chlorophyll a/POC ≈ 1.03. All results suggest that plankton CR and POC variations may be associated with picoplankton dynamics in the Kuroshio.

原文英語
文章編號2909
期刊Plants
11
發行號21
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2022 11月

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 生態學、進化論、行為學與系統學
  • 生態學
  • 植物科學

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