Life-form population responses of a marine planktonic diatom,Chaetoceros pseudocurvisetus, to oligotrophication in regionally upwelled water
Life-form population responses of a marine planktonic diatom,Chaetoceros pseudocurvisetus, to oligotrophication in regionally upwelled water
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海洋浮游硅藻的生命形式种群对区域上升流水中寡营养化的反应
DOI:
10.1007/bf01313435
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发表时间:
1990
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影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
M. Takahashi
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作者:
A. Kuwata;M. Takahashi
Life-form population responses of a centric planktonic diatom,Chaetoceros pseudocurvisetus Mangin, were investigated in summer 1986 and 1988 in the Izu Islands, Japan, in regionally upwelled water where nutrient concentration changed from favorable to unfavorable conditions for active growth and reproduction (oligotrophication). Two types of life form were observed: vegetative cells of healthy and unhealthy looking conditions and resting spores. The observed life-form responses were experimentally evaluated along with a depletion of limiting nutrients. The algal population ceased vegetative growth and initiated resting spore formation with a disappearance of limiting nitrate, and this life-form response seemed to be triggered by the decrease of cellular nitrogen content below a certain level. Since a large amount of silicon was required for the resting spore formation, a part of vegetative cells were unable to form resting spores and formed unhealthy looking vegetative cells under insufficient concentrations of silicic acid. Percentage shares of the resting spores in the population were linearly related to the amounts of available silicic acid. Vegetative cells which did not form resting spores showed greater mortality than resting spores by attack of bacteria and protozoa; however, vegetative cells could respond quickly to possible nutrient replenishment.