Distribution of Microbial Populations and Their Relationship with Environmental Variables in the North Yellow Sea,China  

作　　者：BAI Xiaoge WANG Min LIANG Yantao ZHANG Zhifeng WANG Fang JIANG Xuejiao 

机构地区：[1]College of Marine Life Sciences,Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding,Ministry of Education,Ocean University of China,Qingdao 266003,P.R.China

出　　处：《Journal of Ocean University of China》2012年第1期75-85,共11页中国海洋大学学报（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the General Oceano-graphic Survey Project(908 Project);the Special Fund forPublic Welfare Industry(Oceanography)(Grant No.20080511);the CAS Hundred Talents Project‘The response mechanism of the typical gulf ecosystem to the environmental changes’

摘　　要：In order to understand the large-scale spatial distribution characteristics of picoplankton,nanophytoplankton and virio-plankton and their relationship with environmental variables in coastal and offshore waters,flow cytometry(FCM) was used to ana-lyze microbial abundance of samples collected in summer from four depths at 36 stations in the North Yellow Sea(NYS).The data revealed spatial heterogeneity in microbial populations in the offshore and near-shore waters of the NYS during the summer.For the surface layer,picoeukaryotes were abundant in the near-shore waters,Synechococcus was abundant in the offshore areas,and bacte-rial and viral abundances were high in the near-shore waters around the Liaodong peninsula.In the near-shore waters,no significant vertical variation of picophytoplankton(0.2-2μm) abundance was found.However,the nanophytoplankton abundance was higher in the upper layers(from the surface to 10 m depth) than in the bottom layer.For the offshore waters,both pico-and nanophytoplankton(2-20μm) abundance decreased sharply with depth in the North Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass(NYSCWM).But,for the vertical dis-tribution of virus and bacteria abundance,no significant variation was observed in both near-shore and offshore waters.Autotrophic microbes were more sensitive to environmental change than heterotrophic microbes and viruses.Viruses showed a positive correla-tion with bacterial abundance,suggesting that the bacteriophage might be prominent for virioplankton(about 0.45μm) in summer in the NYS and that viral abundance might play an important role in microbial loop functions.In order to understand the large-scale spatial distribution characteristics of picoplankton,nanophytoplankton and virio-plankton and their relationship with environmental variables in coastal and offshore waters,flow cytometry（FCM） was used to ana-lyze microbial abundance of samples collected in summer from four depths at 36 stations in the North Yellow Sea（NYS）.The data revealed spatial heterogeneity in microbial populations in the offshore and near-shore waters of the NYS during the summer.For the surface layer,picoeukaryotes were abundant in the near-shore waters,Synechococcus was abundant in the offshore areas,and bacte-rial and viral abundances were high in the near-shore waters around the Liaodong peninsula.In the near-shore waters,no significant vertical variation of picophytoplankton（0.2-2μm） abundance was found.However,the nanophytoplankton abundance was higher in the upper layers（from the surface to 10 m depth） than in the bottom layer.For the offshore waters,both pico-and nanophytoplankton（2-20μm） abundance decreased sharply with depth in the North Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass（NYSCWM）.But,for the vertical dis-tribution of virus and bacteria abundance,no significant variation was observed in both near-shore and offshore waters.Autotrophic microbes were more sensitive to environmental change than heterotrophic microbes and viruses.Viruses showed a positive correla-tion with bacterial abundance,suggesting that the bacteriophage might be prominent for virioplankton（about 0.45μm） in summer in the NYS and that viral abundance might play an important role in microbial loop functions.

关 键 词：picoplankton nanophytoplankton bacterioplankton virioplankton the North Yellow Sea（NYS） 

分 类 号：S714[农业科学—林学] TP316[自动化与计算机技术—计算机软件与理论]