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http://dx.doi.org/10.11626/KJEB.2017.35.2.198

Analysis of Environmental Factors Related to Seasonal Variation of Bacteria and Heterotrophic Nanoflagellate in Kyeonggi Bay, Korea  

Baek, Seung Ho (Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) /South Sea Institue)
You, Kai (Fisheries College, Ocean University of China)
Han, Myung-Soo (Department of Life Science, Hanyang University)
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Korean Journal of Environmental Biology / v.35, no.2, 2017 , pp. 198-206 More about this Journal
Abstract
From June 2007 to May 2008, seasonal variations of bacterial abundance and heterotrophic nanoflagellate (HNF), together with environmental factors, were investigated at weekly and monthly intervals in Kyeonggi Bay. During the study period, the water temperature and salinity varied from $1.9^{\circ}C{\sim}29.0^{\circ}C$ and 31~35.1 psu, respectively. The concentration of ammonia, nitrate+nitrite, phosphate, and silicate ranged from 0.01 to $3.22{\mu}M$, 2.03 to $15.34{\mu}M$, 0.06 to $1.82{\mu}M$, and 0.03 to $18.3{\mu}M$, respectively. The annual average concentration of Chl. a varied from $0.86{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$ to $37.70{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$; the concentration was twice as much at the surface than at the deeper layers. The abundance of bacteria and HNF ranged from $0.29{\times}10^6$ to $7.62{\times}10^6cells\;mL^{-1}$ and $1.00{\times}10^2$ to $1.26{\times}10^3cells\;mL^{-1}$, respectively. In particular, there were significant correlations between bacteria and HNF abundance (p<0.05), and then the high abundance of HNF was frequently observed with an increase of bacterial abundance in summer (p<0.001). Our results therefore indicate that bacterial abundance in the bay was mainly controlled by resources supplied as organic and inorganic substances from Lake Shihwa due to the daily water exchange after dike construction. Also, the bacterial abundance was significantly controlled by HNF grazing pressure (top-down) in the warm seasons, i.e. excluding winter, in the Kyeonggi Bay.
Keywords
eutrophic water; microbial community; bacteria; HNF; Kyeonggi Bay;
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