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Is Nitrogen Uptake Rate by Phytoplankton below the Euphotic Zone in the Yellow Sea Considerable?  

Yang, Sung-Ryull (Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kwangju University)
Shim, Jae-Hyung (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Research Institute of Oceanography, Seoul National University)
Chung, Chang-Soo (Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute)
Hong, Gi-Hoon (Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute)
Pae, Se-Jin (Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute)
Yang, Dong-Beom (Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute)
Park, Myung-Gil (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Research Institute of Oceanography, Seoul National University)
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The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY / v.7, no.2, 2002 , pp. 60-67 More about this Journal
Abstract
To determine whether nitrogen (N) uptake by phytoplankton below the euphotic zone in the Yellow Sea is considerable, we measured the uptake rates of nitrate and ammonium using $^{15}N$-labeled stable isotope $K^{15}NO_{3}$ and $^{15}NH_{4}Cl$, in May and November 1997 at total 10 stations. Depth-integrated uptake rates of nitrate and ammonium over the euphotic zone during this study ranged from 1.8 to 15.3 mg N $m^{-2}$ $d^{-1}$ and from 5.0 to 132.2 mg N $m^{-2}$ $d^{-1}$, respectively, and ammonium uptake predominated at 9 of 10 stations (1.9-19.4 fold). Depth-integrated uptake rates of nitrate and ammonium over the whole water column ranged from 2.9 to 22.0 mg N $m^{-2}$ $d^{-1}$ and from 15.7 to 175.5 mg N $m^{-2}$ $d^{-1}$, respectively. The significant proportion of whole water column N uptake was attributed to uptake by phytoplankton below the euphotic zone, ranging from 13.0 to 86.2% for nitrate and from 13.8 to 67.8% for ammonium, indicating that phytoplankton N uptake below the euphotic zone is at times considerable in the study area. The results suggest that when phytoplankton below the euphotic zone in the Yellow Sea are again entrained into the euphotic zone by a certain physical forcing such as turbulent mixing and the vertical movement of thermocline, these episodic events may significantly affect the material fluxes within the euphotic zone. Furthermore, the results suggest that a portion of regenerated production estimated from $^{15}N$-ammonium uptake should be included in new production estimates, which otherwise could be underestimated in the Yellow Sea.
Keywords
New production; Regenerated production; Yellow Sea; Aphotic zone; Nitrogen uptake;
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