Reconstruction of phytoplankton productivity and community structure in the South Yellow Sea  

作　　者：Xi Mei Ri-hui Li Xun-hua Zhang Zhong-bo Wang Yong Zhang 

机构地区：[1]Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology,China Geological Survey,Ministry of Natural Resources,Qingdao 266071,China [2]Laboratory for Marine Mineral Resources,Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology,Qingdao,266071,China [3]Key Laboratory of Marine Sedimentology and Environmental Geology,First Institute of Oceangraphy,Ministry of Natural Resources,Qingdao 266061,China

出　　处：《China Geology》2019年第3期315-324,共10页中国地质（英文）

基　　金：The authors are grateful to the crew of the R/V Kan 407 for their assistance with sample collection. Special thanks are also extended to Prof. Zhao Meixun and Dr. Xing Lei for help with biomarker measurements and advice,to the anonymous reviewers and the Executive Editor-in-Chief Dr. Yang Yan for their comments and suggestions,which significantly improved the quality of the manuscript. The work was jointly supported by the China Geological Survey (DD20160137,DD20190208);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.41502175).

摘　　要：The sedimentary environment and ecological system in the South Yellow Sea (SYS) changed dramatically due to sea level change caused by glacial-interglacial cycles. The authors report the use of marine biomarkers (brassicasterol, dinosterol and C37 alkenones) and terrigenous biomarkers (C28+C30+C32 nalkanols) in core DLC70-3 from the SYS to reconstruct the variation in the phytoplankton productivity and community structure and possible mechanisms during the middle Pleistocene. The results show that the primary productivity and that of single algae presented a consistent trend for the whole core during the middle Pleistocene, which was high during interglacial periods and low during glacial periods, with the highest being in marine isotope stage (MIS) 5–9 and MIS 19–21. The main reason is that the Yellow Sea Warm Current (YSWC) carried much of high temperature, high salinity water into the SYS, causing upwelling and vertical mixing and stirring, which increased the nutrient supply in the photosynthetic layer. The phytoplankton community structure mainly showed an increase in the relative content of haptophytes in MIS 5–9 and MIS 19–21, while the relative content of diatoms and dinoflagellates decreased;there was no evidence for a haptophyte content in other stages. The results reveal a shift from a coccolitho-phoriddominated community during MIS 5 –9 and MIS 19 –21 to a diatom-dominated community during the other stages, mainly as a result of surface salinity variation, attributed to the invasion of the YSWC during high sea level periods.

关 键 词：Biomarker PHYTOPLANKTON PRODUCTIVITY PHYTOPLANKTON community Ocean WARM current Global climate change Marine GEOLOGICAL survey engineering Yellow Sea China 

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