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Species Composition and Seasonal Change of Shrimp Assemblage in the Coastal Waters of Sorido, Korea (소리도 주변 해역 새우류의 종조성과 계절변동)

  • 윤호섭;서호영;최상덕
    • Journal of Aquaculture
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.51-57
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    • 2004
  • Species composition and seasonal change were examined monthly with shrimp assemblage caught in the coastal waters of Solido, Korea. Samplings were conducted in Solido using a beam trawl from June 2000 to May 2001. In the study period, a total of 16 species of shrimp belonging to six families were collected. Species was dominated by Palaemon gravieri, Crangon hakodatei, Trachysalambria curvirostris and Metapenaeus joyneri. Higher abundance of shrimp occurred in September and November, and lower abundance in June. Species diversity was reached its maximum (0.82) in November and its minimum (0.06) in January. Shrimp species in the study area can be grouped into three groups on the basis of their occurrence patterns: resident, seasonal and temporary species.

Seasonal Dynamics of Phytoplankton and Environmental Factors around the Chagwi-do off the West Coast of Jeju Island, Korea

  • Affan, Abu;Lee, Joon-Baek;Kim, Jun-Teck;Choi, Young-Chan;Kim, Jong-Man;Myoung, Jung-Goo
    • Ocean Science Journal
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.117-127
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    • 2007
  • The dynamics of phytoplankton abundance with seasonal variation in physicochemical conditions were investigated monthly at 10 stations around the Chagwi-do off the west coast of Jeju Island, Korea, including inshore, middle shore, and offshore in the marine ranching are a from September 2004 to November 2005. Water temperature varied from 12.1 to $28.9^{\circ}C$ (average $18.8^{\circ}C$), and salinity from 28.9 to 34.9 psu (average 33.7 psu). The chlorophyll a concentration was $0.02-2.05\;{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$ (average $0.70\;{\mu}g\;L^{-1}$), and the maximum concentration occurred in the bottom layer in April. A total of 294 phytoplankton species belonging to 10 families was identified: 182 Bacillariophyceae, 52 Dinophyceae, 9 Chlorophyceae, 12 Cryptophyceae, 6 Chrysophyceae, 4 Dictyophyceae, 13 Euglenophyceae, 6 Prymnesiophyceae, 5 Prasinophyceae, and 5 Raphidophyceae. The standing crop was $2.21-48.69\times10^4\;cells\;L^{-1}$ (average $9.23\times10^4\;cells\;L^{-1}$), and the maximum occurred in the bottom layer in April. Diatoms were most abundant throughout the year, followed by dinoflagellates and phytoflagellates. A phytoplankton bloom occurred twice: once in spring, peaking in April, and once in autumn, peaking in November. The spring bloom was represented by four Chaetoceros species and Skeletonema costatum; each contributed 10-20% of the total phytoplankton abundance. The autumn bloom comprised dinoflagellates, diatoms, and phytoflagellates, of which dinoflagellates were predominant. Gymnodinium conicum, Prorocentrum micans, and P. triestinum each contributed over 10% of the total phytoplankton abundance.

Seasonal Fluctuation in Abundance and Species Composition of Fish Collected by a Small Otter Trawl in Coastal Waters off Yeosu (여수연안에서 소형기선저인망에 어획된 어류의 종조성 및 계절변동)

  • LEE, Sung-Hoon;YU, Tae-Sik;LEE, Dae-Gyu;HWANG, Tae-Yong;HAN, Kyeong-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.172-177
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    • 2019
  • Seasonal fluctuation in abundance and species composition of fish in coastal waters off Dolsan island were investigated using seasonal samples collected by an otter trawl in 2012. A total of 4,848 fishes were sampled and classified into 52 species, 29 families, and 7 orders. The dominant species was Leiognathus nuchalis (2,786 individuals, 57.5%), Amblychaeturichthys hexanema (164 individuals, 3.4%), and Ilisha elongata (141 individuals, 2.9%). The highest number of individuals was found in summer (2,174 individuals), while the lowest number of individuals was found in winter (321 individuals). The diversity index was the highest in spring (H'=3.06) and the lowest in summer and fall (H'=1.77). Temperature was the principal factor to determine the collected number of individuals (r=0.94) and the number of species (r=0.83).

Seasonal Abundance of Culicoides at Yongsan US Army Garrison (USAG) and Camp Humphreys USAG, Republic of Korea, 2010-2013 and 2014-2017

  • Kim, Myung-Soon;Kim, Heung Chul;Bellis, Glenn A.;Chong, Sung-Tae;Kim, Hyo-Sung;Klein, Terry A.
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.59 no.3
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    • pp.273-280
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    • 2021
  • Biting midges (Culicoides: Ceratopogonidae) were collected using New Jersey light traps at Yongsan US Army Garrison (USAG;urban), Seoul Metropolitan city and Camp Humphreys USAG (rural), Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do (province), Republic of Korea , from May-October 2010-2013 and 2015-2017, to determine species composition and seasonal distribution patterns in urban and rural habitats. A total of 9,958 female (53.85%) and 8,533 male (46.15%) Culicoides comprising 16 species were collected. Overall, the most commonly collected species was Culicoides arakawae (74.3%), followed by C. circumscriptus (16.2%), C. kibunensis (2.5%), C. nasuensis (2.2%), C. clavipalpis (1.4%), and C. pallidulus (1.3%), while the remaining 10 species accounted for <2.1% of all Culicoides spp. collected. The 2 predominant species collected were C. circumscriptus (47.4%) and C. arakawae (33.4%) at Yongsan, and C. arakawae (90.4%) and C. circumscriptus (3.9%) at Camp Humphreys. The seasonal abundance of these 2 species varied between years and between sites but on average peaked in August-September for C. arakawae and June-July for C. circumscriptus. Annual variations in abundance were observed for most species collected during this study. Unusually high proportions of male specimens were observed for most species at both sites which may be due to the use of the New Jersey trap.

Effects of Environmental Factors on the Seasonal Variations of Zooplankton Communities in the Semi-enclosed Yeoja Bay, Korea (반폐쇄적 여자만 동물플랑크톤 군집의 계절변화에 따른 환경요인의 영향)

  • Seong Yong Moon;Heeyong Kim;Mi Hee Lee;Jin Ho Jung;Se Ra Yoo
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.56 no.1
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    • pp.54-65
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    • 2023
  • Effect of environmental factors on the seasonal variations of zooplankton communities was investigated in the semi-closed Yeoja Bay, Korea from February, April to August, and November 2021. Out of a total 49 species of zooplankton were collected with a predominant of neritic copepods (mainly Paracalanus orientalis, Acartia omorii, Acartia ohtsukai, Centropages abdominalis, Ditrichocorycaeus affinis, and Oithona sp.), accounting for 58.9% of the total abundance of zooplankton. The diversity indices indicated a relatively highest in July, suggesting that diversity is influenced by seasonal temperature, N. scintillans, and neritic copepods species. A cluster analysis with non-metric multidimensional scaling revealed four groups of zooplankton communities. The February sample clustered into Group A, having the lowest mean total abundance and species diversity of zooplankton, consisting mainly of N. scintillans located the whole region. Cluster Group B from the spring season (April to May) and contained the species diversity with some neritic copepods. Cluster Group C from the summer season (June to August) mainly comprised P. orientalis, A. ohtsukai, Oithona sp., and hydromedusae. Cluster Group D from the autumn season (November) mainly comprised P. orientalis, Temora discaudata. Redundancy analysis indicated that abundance is positively correlated with temperature, salinity, and pico chlorophyll-a concentrations. This study showed that planktonic larvae (such as branchyura larvae) and some copepods (including A. omorii, A. ohtsukai, C. sinicus, and C. abdominalis) were significantly vulnerable to zooplankton community of temperature, salinity, and pico chlorophyll-a concentrations.

Population Variation of Spanish Mackerel (Scomberomorus niphonius) according to Its Major Prey Abundance in Southern and Eastern Coastal Waters of Korea (한국 남해와 동해 연안역 주요 먹이 어종의 풍도변화에 따른 삼치 개체군의 변동)

  • Kim, Jin Yeong;Kim, Youngsoon;Kim, Heeyong
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.30 no.10
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    • pp.811-820
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    • 2021
  • The population variation of Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus niphonius) according to its major prey abundance was analyzed using monthly catches of coastal set net fisheries in the southern waters off Gyeongsangnam-do and eastern waters off Gyeongsangbuk-do of Korea from 2006 to 2019. The abundance of Spanish mackerel and its prey species fluctuated almost simultaneously with time lags of +2 to -2 months between the set net fisheries in the southern and eastern waters. The generalized additive model revealed that the abundance of Spanish mackerel was influenced by its prey species such as hairtail and anchovy in southern waters, and common mackerel and horse mackerel in eastern waters. The model deviance explained 49% and 42% of Spanish mackerel abundance in southern and eastern waters respectively. These results suggest that the abundance of Spanish mackerel is affected by seasonal migratory prey fish species in the coastal areas and can be linked to their northerly migration.

The Study on the Seasonal Variation of Microbial Community in Kyeonggi Bay, Korea 1. Bacteria and Heterotrophic nanoflagellates (경기만 수역에서 미세생물 군집의 계절적 변동 연구 I. 박테리아와 종속영양 미소 편모류)

  • 양은진;최중기;현정호
    • The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.44-57
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    • 2003
  • Seasonal variations of bacterial abundance and production, heterotrophic nanoflagellate (HNF) abundance and HNF ingestion rates on bacteria using FLB together with environmental variables were investigated at intervals of a month in Kyeonggi Bay from December 1991 to November 1998. Bacterial abundance and production ranged from 0.38$\times$10$^{9}$ ~ 3.25$\times$10$^{9}$ cells 1$^{-1}$ (average 1.19$\pm$0.69$\times$10$^{9}$ cells 1$^{-1}$ ) and from 1.51 to 20.4 cells 1$^{-1}$ h$^{-1}$ (average 6.04$\pm$ 1.88$\times$10$^{6}$ cells 1$^{-1}$ h$^{-1}$ ), respectively. Bacterial abundance and production showed no differences at the high tide and low tide, and bacterial abundances were not different with depth, but bacterial production decreased with depth. Seasonal variation of bacterial abundance showed almost similar fluctuation pattern to those of DOC (dissolved organic carbon). HNF abundances ranged from 388 to 4,374 cells ml$^{-1}$ (average 1,344$\pm$130 cells ml$^{-1}$ ), were high in March, April, July and August. HNF abundance showed no difference between the high tide and low tide, and was not different with depth. The ingestion rates of HNF on bacteria were 1.0 to 6.3$\pm$10$^{6}$ bacteria 1$^{-1}$ h$^{-1}$ (average 3.12$\pm$0.55$\times$10$^{6}$ bacteria 1$^{-1}$ h$^{-1}$ ), resulting ingestion rates of HNF removed 19.4 to 141.4 %(average 62.3$\pm$12.0%) of bacterial production. Ingestion rates and grazing pressure of HNF on bacteria showed high correlation with HNF abundance. Although we cannot exactly discussion about seasonal variation of bacteria community in this study area where physical and chemical parameters were very complex, the results indicate that bacterial abundance and production were mainly controlled by resources supply as dissolved organic carbon and chlorophyll-a(bottom-up) except March which bacterial abundance and production uncoupled chlorophyll-a because of low dissolved organic carbon and low temperature, and were controlled by HNF grazing pressure(top-down) in the warm seasons except the winter.

Seasonal Fluctuations of Marine Viral Abundances and Physicochemical Parameters in Gwangyang Bay (광양만 해양바이러스 개체수와 물리화학적 요인의 계절적 변동)

  • Choi, Eun Seok;Lee, Gunsup;Kim, Dongguin;Auh, Chung-Kyoon;Park, Jongbum;Chung, Youngjae;Lee, Taek-Kyun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.13 no.11
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    • pp.5615-5622
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    • 2012
  • Seasonal distributions of the viral abundance and physicochemical parameters were analyzed at three different regions in Gwangyang Bay. Morphological structure of marine virus was observed using transmission electron microscopy. Most of marine virus had bacteriophage-like structure, but some were similar with eukaryotic microalgal virus, Ectocarpus siliculosus virus (EsV). Viral abundance at Group 1 (closed eutrophic region) was higher than viral abundances at Group 2 (closed oligotrophic region) and Group 3 (open oligotrophic region). Seasonal abundances of marine virus at Group 1 were dynamically changed. The viral density was variably changed from maximum $7.33{\times}10^8ml^{-1}$ in August to minimum $0.3{\times}10^8ml^{-1}$ in December and maintained middle value in spring and autumn. The concentration of nitrogen and phosphate sources was correlated with viral abundance. Particularly, seasonal change of dissolved oxygen concentration was opposite to the variation of viral abundance. These results showed that viral abundances were closely related with fluctuation of marine physicochemical environment in Gwangyang bay.

Community Structure and Distributions of Zooplankton in Gangjin Bay in 1999 (1999년 강진만 동물플랑크톤 군집의 분포 및 특성)

  • 허회권;김도현;안승환
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.46-54
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    • 2002
  • We observed zooplankton community to understand variations in the species composition and abundance in Gangjin Bay. Samples were collected bimonthly from February to November 1999 at 10 stations in Gangjin Bay of the southern part of Korea. Zooplankton communities consisted to nine taxa and mean biomass was 2,028 indiv. $m^{-3}$. The maximum abundance was observed to be 5,496 indiv. $m^{-3}$ in February and the minimum in November, 78 indiv. $m^{-3}$. Copepods dominated and most diverse in Gangjin Bay. Seasonal fluctuation in the copepod abundance varied between 42 and 4,159 indiv. $m^{-3}$. Dominant species are Acartia omorii, Centrophages abdominalis, Paracalanus indicus and A. steueri. Cladoceran also dominated and the maximum abundance was 765 indiv. $m^{-3}$ in April. A. omorii and Oithona davisae dominated in February, A. omorii, Eurytemora pacifica, Evadne nordmanni and Podon polyphemoides in April, Tortanus dextrilobatus and decapod nauplius in June, Paracalanus indicus, E. tergestina and Penitia avirostris in August and A. erythraea and P. indicus in October. In November, P. indicus and Sagitta crassa dominated.

Change in Species Composition of Fish in Chonsu Bay 3. Pelagic Fish (천수만 어류의 종조성 변화 3. 부어류)

  • LEE Tae Won
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.654-664
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    • 1998
  • Seasonal variation in species composition and abundance of pelagic fish in Chonsu Bay were determined by analyzing monthly samples collected using a set net from March, 1992 to January, 1993. The data in this study were compared with those of 1981$\~$82. Of 63 species identified, Engraulis japonicus, Ammodytes penonatus, Enedrias fangi and Sardinella zunasi predominated in abundance. Especially E.japonicus occupied $87\%$ of total number of individuals. In spling, fish abundance increased by recruitment of lariat E. fanti as well as adults of E. japonicus, A. personatus and S. zunasi. These adults moved towards the open sea after spawning in early summer. A large number of juveniles was then collected from August until December. The seasonal change in species composition from the present study showed a similar trend to that occurred in 1981$\~$82. However, larger number of pelagic fish was caught in 1992$\~$93 than in 1981$\~$82. This result seems to be related to the higher water temperature (>$2^{\circ}C$) than the average mean temperature in spring and autumn, implying that higher temperature provides favorable conditions for spawning and growth of the fish.

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