Community composition and photophysiology of phytoplankton assemblages in coastal Oyashio waters of the western North Pacific during early spring

• Published in: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
• Main Authors: Yoshida, Kazuhiro, Endo, Hisashi, Lawrenz, Evelyn, Isada, Tomonori, Hooker, Stanford B., Prasil, Ondrej, Suzuki, Koji
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Coastal Oyashio; Spring diatom bloom; P-E curve; Diatom-specific rbcL; Chlorophyll a fluorescence; 450; Oyashio; Pacific; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/79655; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2018.06.018

Globally, the western subarctic Pacific is known as the region with the largest seasonal drawdown in the partial pressure of CO2 due to biological activity, i.e., high spring primary production and particulate organic carbon flux. These distinctive features are mainly caused by intense spring diatom...