Community Structure and Spatial Distribution of Phytoplankton in the Polar Front Region off the East Coast of Korea in Summer

여름철 한국 동해 극전선해역에서의 식물플랑크톤의 군집구조와 분포

  • PARK Joo-Suck (National Fisheries Research and Development Agency) ;
  • KANG Chang-Keun (National Fisheries Research and Development Agency) ;
  • AN Kyeng-Ho (National Fisheries Research and Development Agency)
  • Published : 1991.07.01

Abstract

To characterize the community structure and spatial distribution of phytoplankton, observations on seawater temperature, salinity, nutrients, primary productivity and abundance and species composition of phytoplankton were made in the polar front region and its neighborhood off the east coast of Korea in summer 1990. Among the 96 taxa identified, Rhizosolenia setigera and Thalassionema nitzschioides were the most dominant species. The assemblage at the surface and 50 m depth was quite different in the northern inshore part of the study area but similar in the southern and offshore part. Principal component analysis by the species abundance showed that the phytoplankton consisted of the communities representing the surface of the northern inshore part with the neritic-warm dinoflagellates, the Northern Korean Cold Water with the cold water diatoms and the southern and offshore part, which seems to represent the Eastern Korean Warm Water, with the warm water diatoms. At the frontal region, diatoms were mixed with warm and cold water species. Primary productivity and phytoplankton standing crops were higher at the front than the neighboring waters. Nutrients were markedly high at the Northern Korean Cold Water. Horizontal advection of the Northern Korean Cold Water accompanied by nutrient supply seems to contribute to the high phytoplankton biomass at the front.

여름철 한국 동해 중부 극전선과 주변해역에서 식물플랑크톤의 군집구조와 분포를 밝히기 위하여 1990년 여름철에 수온, 염분, 영양염과 기초생산력 및 식물플랑크톤의 현존량에 대해서 조사하였다. 총 96종의 식물플랑크톤이 동정되었으며 그중 Rhizosolenia setigera와 Thalassionema nitzschioides 2종이 우점종으로 나타났다. 조사해역의 북부연안수역에서는 표충과 chlorophyll a가 최대로 나타난 50m충의 군집이 아주 다르고 남부와 외해역에서는 유사했다. 주요인분석의 결과 북부연안 표층수역을 대표하는 식물플랑크톤 군집은 연안난수성 와편모조류였고 북한한류수역은 냉수성 규조류로 그리고 남부와 외해수역은 난수성 규조류였다. 또한 전선구역에서는 냉$\cdot$ 온수성 규조류가 혼합하여 나타났고 기초생산력과 식물플랑크톤의 현존량 역시 전선구역에서 월등히 높았다. 영양염의 농도는 북한한류수역에서 현저히 높았는데 그 이류는 영양염의 공급과 함께 전선면에서의 식물플랑크톤 peak에 크게 기여하는 것으로 사료된다.

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