Coastal upwelling occurred along the west coast of Guangdong in the northern South China Sea during the summer of 2006. The effects of upwelling on the vertical and horizontal distributions of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus were investigated. A distinct vertical temperature difference between the surface water and water at a depth of 30 m was observed in the coastal upwelling region. There was a clear spatial variability of temperature, and an increasingly obvious horizontal gradient was created from the coast to offshore waters. Picophytoplankton communities observed from the coast to offshore waters were significantly different. In the coastal upwelling waters, the picophytoplankton community was dominated by Synechococcus within the euphotic zone. Prochlorococcus dominated the picophytoplankton community in the euphotic zone in the non-upwelling region. This difference in the picophytoplankton community structure was due to different hydrodynamics. The results of canonical correspondence analysis demonstrate that temperature, salinity, and phosphate concentration may be important factors affecting the distribution of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus.
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This study analyzed seasonal physicochemical and phytoplankton data collected at 12 marine monitoring stations in Daya Bay from 1999 to 2002. Cluster analysis based on water quality and phytoplankton parameters measured at the 12 stations could be grouped into three clusters: cluster I - stations S1, S2, S7 and S11 in the southern part and the north-eastern part of Daya Bay; cluster II - stations S5, S6, S9, S10 and S12 in the central and north-eastern parts of Daya Bay; cluster III - stations S3, S4 and S8 in the cage culture areas in the south-western part of Daya Bay and in the north-western part of the Bay near Aotou harbor. Bivariate correlations between phytoplankton density and the major physical and nutrient factors were calculated for all stations. Factor analysis shows that there were high positive loadings of pH, TIN and the ratio of TIN to PO4-P in the three clusters, which indicates that all the stations in the three clusters were primarily grouped according to their respective nutrient conditions.
Human activities and natural processes like mixing and/or upwelling driven by climate change have a strong influence on water quality in the coastal regions. Human activities are the dominant factor for water quality in the mouth of the Sanya River. This region exhibited the maximum influence of discharge from the Saya estimated by higher nutrient levels and chlorophyll a (Chl a). Natural processes are the dominant factor regarding water quality in outer bay. Both human activities and natural processes play important roles on water quality in Sanya Bay. Each hydrologie and ecological zone has a specific water quality response associated with the relative importance of both human activities and natural processes. Therefore, the information would be useful for regional agencies in developing a strategy to carry out scientific plans for resource use based on marine system functions.
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In this work, we analyze environmental (physical and chemical) and biological (phytoplankton) data obtained in Sanya Bay during four cruises, carried out in January, April, August, and October. The main objective of this study was to identify the key environmental factors affecting phytoplankton structure and bacterioplankton in the bay. Results suggest that spatial variations in the phytoplankton community and bacterioplankton biomass are the result of nutrients. Temporal variation in the abundance of bacterioplankton and phytoplankton are affected by a combination of physical and biological factors, such as temperature and nutrients. The silicate, phosphate, and nitrogen phytoplankton require for growth may be co-limited. Monsoon winds (a southwestern monsoon during summer and a northeastern monsoon during winter) play important roles in controlling the phytoplankton community and bacterioplankton abundance in Sanya Bay, northern South China Sea.
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In this paper, chemometric approaches based on cluster analysis, classical and robust principal component analysis were employed to identify water quality in Daya Bay (DYB), China. The results show that these approaches divided water quality in DYB into two groups: stations S3, S8, S10 and S11 belong to cluster A, which lie in Dapeng Cove, Aotou Harbor and the north-eastern part of DYB, where water quality is related mainly to anthropogenic activities. The other stations belong to cluster B, which lie in the southern, central and eastern parts of DYB, where the quality is related mainly to water exchange with the South China Sea. Cluster analysis yields good results as a first exploratory method for evaluating spatial difference, but it fails to demonstrate the relationship between variables and environmental quality on the one hand and the untreated data on the other. However, with the aid of suitable chemometric approaches, the relationship between samples or variables can be investigated. Classical and robust principal component analysis can provide a visual aid for identifying the water environment in DYB, and then extracting specific information about relationships between variables and spatial variation trends in water quality.
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Eleven physicochemical parameters of data collected from 12 stations in Daya Bay in 2003 were analyzed by multivariate statistical analysis. Cluster analysis (CA) grouped data from 4 seasons into two groups, the northeast and southwest monsoon periods, representing different natural processes. During the northeast monsoon period, principal component analysis (PCA) and CA group the 12 monitoring sites into Cluster DA1 (S1, S2 and S6) and Cluster DA2 (S3-S5 and S7-S12). During the southwest monsoon period, PCA and CA group the 12 monitoring sites into Cluster WB1 (S1, S2, S7, S9 and S11) and Cluster WB2 (S3-S6, S8, S10, S11 and S12). The spatial heterogeneity within the bay was defined by different hydrodynamic conditions and human activities. These results may be valuable for achieving sustainable use of the coastal ecosystems in Daya Bay.
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