dancing with the tides fluctuations of coastal phytoplankton orchestrated by different oscillatory modes of the tidal cycle跳舞的潮汐波动沿海浮游植物由不同的潮汐周期的振荡模式.pdfVIP

Dancing with the Tides: Fluctuations of Coastal Phytoplankton Orchestrated by Different Oscillatory Modes of the Tidal Cycle 1,2 ` 1 1,2 3 1 Anouk N. Blauw *, Elisa Beninca , Remi W. P. M. Laane , Naomi Greenwood , Jef Huisman 1 Aquatic Microbiology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2 Marine and Coastal Systems, Deltares, Delft, The Netherlands, 3 Marine Observations Systems, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom Abstract Population fluctuations are often driven by an interplay between intrinsic population processes and extrinsic environmental forcing. To investigate this interplay, we analyzed fluctuations in coastal phytoplankton concentration in relation to the tidal cycle. Time series of chlorophyll fluorescence, suspended particulate matter (SPM), salinity and temperature were obtained from an automated measuring platform in the southern North Sea, covering 9 years of data at a resolution of 12 to 30 minutes. Wavelet analysis showed that chlorophyll fluctuations were dominated by periodicities of 6 hours 12 min, 12 hours 25 min, 24 hours and 15 days, which correspond to the typical periodicities of tidal current speeds, the semidiurnal tidal cycle, the day-night cycle, and the spring-neap tidal cycle, respectively. During most of the year, chlorophyll and SPM fluctuated in phase with tidal current speed, indicative of alternating periods of sinking and vertical mixing of algal cells and SPM driven by the tidal cycle. Spring blooms slowly built up over several spring-neap tidal cycles, and subsequently expanded in late spring when