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Population Development of the Dinoflagellates Ceratium furca and Ceratium fusus during Spring and Early Summer in Iwa Harbor, Sagami Bay, Japan  

Baek, Seung-Ho (Graduate School of Environmental and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University)
Shimode, Shinji (Graduate School of Environmental and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University)
Han, Myung-Soo (Department of Life Science, Division of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University)
Kikuchi, Tomohiko (Graduate School of Environmental and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University)
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Ocean Science Journal / v.43, no.1, 2008 , pp. 49-59 More about this Journal
Abstract
To examine the population development of the dinoflagellates, Ceratium furca and Ceratium fusus, daily field monitoring was conducted between April and July 2003 in the temperate coastal water of Sagami Bay, Japan. During the study period, the concentrations of C. furca were always lower than those of C. fusus. A sharp increase in the densities of both species was recorded on 5 May showing the maximum cell concentrations (C. furca = $14,800\;cells\;L^{-1}$, C. fusus = $49,600\;cells\;L^{-1}$). In the 7 days prior to the May bloom of the Ceratium species (29 April to 1 May), the highest density of the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans was observed. Additionally, a second bloom of C. fusus occurred on 22 July. Here, two causes of the significant increases in the Ceratium populations during the two blooming periods (first time; 1 to 8 May, second time; 15 to 22 July) are presented. First, an increase in the nutrients of the surface layer regenerated by the breakdown of blooms by N.scintillans could be considered as a major cause of the population increase of the two Ceratium species. Second, a decrease in salinity (to 27 psu) was correlated with the later bloom of C. fusus. These results suggest that the population development of the two Ceratium species requires nutrients regenerated after the reduction of the diatom population by N. scintillans and, for C. fusus, continuous low salinity conditions, compared to other environmental factors during the rainy season.
Keywords
Ceratium furca; Ceratium fusus; Noctiluca scintillans; Bloom process; Environmental factor;
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