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http://dx.doi.org/10.4217/OPR.2019.41.1.001

Phytoplankton Ecosystems at Oil Spill Coasts Including the Hebei Spirit Oil Spill Site Near Taeanhaean National Park, Korea 1. Interannual Variability of Phytoplankton Community in Summer  

Yih, Wonho (Department of Marine Biotechnology, Kunsan National University)
Kim, Hyung Seop (Department of Marine Biotechnology, Kunsan National University)
Jo, Soo-Gun (Department of Marine Biotechnology, Kunsan National University)
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Ocean and Polar Research / v.41, no.1, 2019 , pp. 1-10 More about this Journal
Abstract
Right after the 2007 Hebei Spirit Oil Spill phytoplankton ecosystems were investigated for 11 years based on the seasonal monitoring of the composition and abundance of phytoplankton species. Comparable time-series data from the 1989 Exxon Valdez or the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill sites were not available. It was suggested that the ecological healthiness of phytoplankton ecosystems at EVOS sites had recovered after 10 years following the oil spill based on chlorophyll concentrations even though these concentrations only represented phytoplankton communities in most cases. Chlorophyll concentrations can only reflect limited aspects of highly complex phytoplankton ecosystems. During the last 11 years following the 2017 HSOS, extreme variabilities were met in the seasonally averaged ratios of diatoms to phototrophic flagellates including dinoflagellates based on the microscopic cell countings. Summer phytoplankton communities exhibited some cyclic interannual changes in dominant groups every 2-4 years. During the early years (2008-2010) cryptophytes or raphidophytes (Chattonella spp.) dominated alternately each year, which was repeated again in 2014, 2015 and 2017. Two thecate dinoflagellates, Tripos fusus and Tripos furca, together accounted for 52.5% and 50.0% of all organisms in the summers of 2011 and 2012, respectively, which was repeated again in 2018. Summer occurrence and dominance by the phototrophic flagellates including HABs (Harmful Algal Blooms) species as well as their interannual variabilities in the oil spill sites could be utilized as markers for the stable and long-term management of healthy ecosystems. For this type of scientific ecosystem management monitoring of chlorophyll concentrations may sometimes be insufficient to gain a proper and comprehensive understanding of phytoplankton communities located in areas where oil spills have occurred and harmed the ecosystem.
Keywords
Hebei Spirit Oil Spill(HSOS); phytoplankton ecosystem; interannual variation; summer community; Taeanhaean National Park;
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