Different vertical distribution of zooplankton community between North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and Western Pacific Warm Pool: its implication to carbon flux

Dong SUN; Dongsheng ZHANG; Ruiyan ZHANG; Chunsheng WANG

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Dong SUN, Dongsheng ZHANG, Ruiyan ZHANG, Chunsheng WANG. Different vertical distribution of zooplankton community between North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and Western Pacific Warm Pool: its implication to carbon flux[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019, 38(6): 32-45. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1237-x

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Dong SUN, Dongsheng ZHANG, Ruiyan ZHANG, Chunsheng WANG. Different vertical distribution of zooplankton community between North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and Western Pacific Warm Pool: its implication to carbon flux[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019, 38(6): 32-45. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1237-x

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Dong SUN, Dongsheng ZHANG, Ruiyan ZHANG, Chunsheng WANG. Different vertical distribution of zooplankton community between North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and Western Pacific Warm Pool: its implication to carbon flux[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019, 38(6): 32-45. doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1237-x

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Different vertical distribution of zooplankton community between North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and Western Pacific Warm Pool: its implication to carbon flux

doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1237-x

Dong SUN^{1, 2},
Dongsheng ZHANG^{1, 2},
Ruiyan ZHANG^{1, 2},
Chunsheng WANG^{1, 2, 3
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1.
Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem and Biogeochemistry, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou 310012, China
2.
Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China
3.
State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China

Funds: The National Basic Research Program (973 Program) of China under contract No. 2015CB755902; the China Ocean Mineral Resources Research and Development Association Program under contract No. DY135-E2-2-4; the Scientific Research Fund of the Second Institute of Oceanography, SOA under contract No. JG1712; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No. 41406116.

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Corresponding author: E-mail: wangsio@sio.org.cn
Received Date: 2017-09-17
Accepted Date: 2017-11-10

Available Online: 2020-04-21

Publish Date: 2019-06-01

Abstract

Abstract

The mesozooplankton in both epipelagic and mesopelagic zones is essentially important for the study of ecosystem and biological carbon pump. Previous studies showed that the diel vertical migration (DVM) pattern of mesozooplankton varied among ecosystems. However, that pattern was largely unknown in the Western Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP). The vertical distribution, DVM and community structure of mesozooplankton from the surface to 1 000 m were compared at Stas JL7K (WPWP) and MA (North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, NPSG). Two sites showed similarly low biomass in both epipelagic and mesopelagic zones, which were in accordance with oligotrophic conditions of these two ecosystems. Stronger DVM (night/day ratio) was found at JL7K (1.31) than that at MA (1.09) on surface 0–100 m, and an obvious night increase of mesopelagic biomass was observed at JL7K, which was probably due to migrators from bathypelagic zone. Active carbon flux by DVM of zooplankton was estimated to be 0.23 mmol/(m²·d) at JL7K and 0.16 mmol/(m²·d) at MA. The community structure analysis showed that calanoid copepods, cnidarians and appendicularians were the main contributors to DVM of mesozooplankton at both sites. We also compared the present result with previous studies of the two ecosystems, and suggested that the DVM of mesozooplankton was more homogeneous within the WPWP and more variable within the NPSG, though both ecosystems showed typically extremely oligotrophic conditions. The different diel vertical migration strength of mesozooplankton between NPSG and WPWP implied different efficiency of carbon pump in these two ecosystems.
- mesopelagic zone,
- diel vertical migration,
- biological pump,
- vertical distribution,
- active carbon flux

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