Response of size and trophic structure of zooplankton community to marine environmental conditions in the northern South China Sea in winter,Journal of Plankton Research

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Response of size and trophic structure of zooplankton community to marine environmental conditions in the northern South China Sea in winter
Journal of Plankton Research ( IF 2.1 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-05 , DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbaa022
Yixiang Chen _{1,

2,

3} , Shiquan Lin ₁ , Chunsheng Wang _{1,

2} , Juan Yang ₃ , Dong Sun _{1,

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The South China Sea (SCS) is a semi-enclosed marginal sea. And in the northern SCS (NSCS), the Pearl River plume, mesoscale eddies and Kuroshio intrusion may influence the structure of pelagic ecosystems. Here, based on mesozooplankton samples collected in the NSCS from December 2014 to January 2015, spatial variations of mesozooplankton biomass, abundance, normalized biomass size spectra (NBSS), size structure and trophic structure were analyzed to study the response of mesozooplankton community to the influence of highly variable oceanographic environment. High biomass, abundance and intercept of NBSS for the mesozooplankton community were observed in highly productive regions (net primary production > 400 mg C m⁻² day⁻¹), such as river plume and cold eddy. No consistent spatial variation was observed for the slope of NBSS, probably because of highly dynamic marine environment in the NSCS. For the trophic structure of mesozooplankton community, the ratio of total chaetognaths biovolume to herbivores/omnivores biovolume (RTCH) was significantly high in river plume and Kuroshio intrusion. The high RTCH indicated unstable trophic structures, which may be due to extreme high proportion of smaller size individuals supported by discharge of river and transport of warm water species from the tropical western Pacific by Kuroshio intrusion, respectively.

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