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Interannual changes in zooplankton echo subtropical and high latitude climate effects in the southern East China Sea
Climate variability plays a central role in the dynamics of marine pelagic ecosystems shaping the structure and abundance changes of plankton communities, thereby affecting energy pathways and biogeochemical fluxes in the ocean. Here we have investigated complex interactions driven a climate-hydrolo...
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author | Molinero, Juan Carlos Tseng, Li-Chun Abbate, Celeste López Ramirez-Romero, Eduardo Hwang, Jiang-Shiou |
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description | Climate variability plays a central role in the dynamics of marine pelagic ecosystems shaping the structure and abundance changes of plankton communities, thereby affecting energy pathways and biogeochemical fluxes in the ocean. Here we have investigated complex interactions driven a climate-hydrology-plankton system in the southern East China Sea over the period 2000 to 2012. In particular, we aimed at quantifying the influence of climate phenomena playing out in tropical (El Nino 3.4) and middle-high latitudes (East Asia Winter Monsoon, EAWM, and Pacific Decadal Oscillation, PDO) on pelagic copepods. We found that the EAWM and El Nino 3.4 showed a non-stationary and non-linear relationship with local temperature variability. In the two cases, the strength of the relationship, as indexed by the wavelet coherence analysis, decreased along with the positive phase of the PDO. Likewise, the influence of EAWM and El Nino3.4 on copepods exhibited a non-stationary link that changed along with the PDO state. Indeed, copepods and EAWM were closely related during the positive phase, while the link copepods–El Nino 3.4 was stronger during the negative phase. Our results pointed out cascading effects from climate to plankton driven by the positive phase of the PDO through its effect on temperature conditions, and likely through a larger southward transport of nutrient-rich water masses to northern Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait. We suggest a chain of mechanisms whereby the PDO shapes interannual dynamics of pelagic copepods and highlight that these results have implications for integrative management measures, as pelagic copepods plays a prominent role in food web dynamics and for harvested fish in the East China Sea. |
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spelling | pubmed-59790152018-06-17 Interannual changes in zooplankton echo subtropical and high latitude climate effects in the southern East China Sea Molinero, Juan Carlos Tseng, Li-Chun Abbate, Celeste López Ramirez-Romero, Eduardo Hwang, Jiang-Shiou PLoS One Research Article Climate variability plays a central role in the dynamics of marine pelagic ecosystems shaping the structure and abundance changes of plankton communities, thereby affecting energy pathways and biogeochemical fluxes in the ocean. Here we have investigated complex interactions driven a climate-hydrology-plankton system in the southern East China Sea over the period 2000 to 2012. In particular, we aimed at quantifying the influence of climate phenomena playing out in tropical (El Nino 3.4) and middle-high latitudes (East Asia Winter Monsoon, EAWM, and Pacific Decadal Oscillation, PDO) on pelagic copepods. We found that the EAWM and El Nino 3.4 showed a non-stationary and non-linear relationship with local temperature variability. In the two cases, the strength of the relationship, as indexed by the wavelet coherence analysis, decreased along with the positive phase of the PDO. Likewise, the influence of EAWM and El Nino3.4 on copepods exhibited a non-stationary link that changed along with the PDO state. Indeed, copepods and EAWM were closely related during the positive phase, while the link copepods–El Nino 3.4 was stronger during the negative phase. Our results pointed out cascading effects from climate to plankton driven by the positive phase of the PDO through its effect on temperature conditions, and likely through a larger southward transport of nutrient-rich water masses to northern Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait. We suggest a chain of mechanisms whereby the PDO shapes interannual dynamics of pelagic copepods and highlight that these results have implications for integrative management measures, as pelagic copepods plays a prominent role in food web dynamics and for harvested fish in the East China Sea. Public Library of Science 2018-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5979015/ /pubmed/29851995 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197382 Text en © 2018 Molinero et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Molinero, Juan Carlos Tseng, Li-Chun Abbate, Celeste López Ramirez-Romero, Eduardo Hwang, Jiang-Shiou Interannual changes in zooplankton echo subtropical and high latitude climate effects in the southern East China Sea |
title | Interannual changes in zooplankton echo subtropical and high latitude climate effects in the southern East China Sea |
title_full | Interannual changes in zooplankton echo subtropical and high latitude climate effects in the southern East China Sea |
title_fullStr | Interannual changes in zooplankton echo subtropical and high latitude climate effects in the southern East China Sea |
title_full_unstemmed | Interannual changes in zooplankton echo subtropical and high latitude climate effects in the southern East China Sea |
title_short | Interannual changes in zooplankton echo subtropical and high latitude climate effects in the southern East China Sea |
title_sort | interannual changes in zooplankton echo subtropical and high latitude climate effects in the southern east china sea |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5979015/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29851995 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197382 |
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