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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-6809-2015
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-6809-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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Research article
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27 Nov 2015
Research article |
| 27 Nov 2015
Seasonal and size-dependent variations in the phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing in the southern South China Sea under the influence of the East Asian monsoon
CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Guangzhou 510301, China
Y. Tan
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CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Guangzhou 510301, China
L. Huang
CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Guangzhou 510301, China
Z. Hu
CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Guangzhou 510301, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Z. Ke
CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology, Guangzhou 510301, China
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We observed that phytoplankton biomass and growth rate (μ), microzooplankton grazing rate (m), and coupling (correlation) between the μ and m significantly varied between the summer and winter, and microzooplankton selectively grazed more on the larger-sized phytoplankton, and a low grazing impact on phytoplankton (m/μ < 50%) in the SSCS. The salient seasonal variations in μ and m, and their coupling were closely related to environmental variables under the influence of the East Asian monsoon.
We observed that phytoplankton biomass and growth rate (μ), microzooplankton grazing rate (m),...
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