Daily variation in the prokaryotic community during a spring bloom in shelf waters of the East China Sea.

ABSTRACT: To understand prokaryotic responses during a spring bloom in offshore shelf waters, prokaryotic parameters were measured daily at a station located in the middle of the East China Sea over a six-week period from March 25 to May 19. The site experienced a phytoplankton bloom in late April, triggering changes in prokaryotic abundance and production after a lag of approximately one week. Before the bloom, changes in prokaryotic composition were small. Both during the bloom and in the post-bloom period, successive changes among bacterial groups were apparent. A SAR11 group became more dominant during the bloom period, and diverse groups belonging to the Flavobacteriia occurred dominantly during both the bloom and post-bloom periods. However, bacterial community changes at the species level dur

SUBMITTER: Choi DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6061848 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature