TY - JOUR
T1 - Seasonal blooms of the dinoflagellate algae Noctiluca scintillans
T2 - Regional and global scale aspects
AU - Piontkovski, Sergey A.
AU - Serikova, Irina M.
AU - Evstigneev, Vladislav P.
AU - Prusova, Irina Yu
AU - Zagorodnaya, Yuliya A.
AU - Al-Hashmi, Khalid A.
AU - Al-Abri, Nader M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research stemmed from an international cooperation linking SevSU, Russia , SQU, Oman , and IBSS, Russia and supported by grants No. 42-01-09/90/2020-3 , IG/DVC/CEMB/21/01 , AAAA-A18-118020790229-7 , and AAAA-A18-118020890074-2 . The authors would like to thank all colleagues whose data have been used for the construction of plots and comparative analysis. In particular, authors appreciate the data on Noctiluca provided by S.L.Smith whose work was funded by the U.S. NSF grant OCE 1259255 and the Fulbright Foundation, USA .
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PY - 2021/5
Y1 - 2021/5
N2 - Seasonal variability is one of the most powerful components in multiple scale variations of plankton communities. A comparison of the seasonal blooms of Noctiluca scintillans in individual basins is combined with a statistical analysis of the relationships between this species and environmental forcing factors. Seasonal patterns of Noctiluca scintillans abundance throughout the Bay of Biscay, the North Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, the Sea of Marmara, the Adriatic Sea, the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, the eastern Australian shelf and the Japanese shelf pointed to the persistence of unimodal and bimodal algal blooms, of which unimodal are most common. In general, the duration of the monsoon-induced blooms exceeds that of the temperate regions. A Principal Component Analysis of blooms and environmental characteristics over regions indicated maximal magnitudes of Noctiluca blooms occurring at a medium kinetic energy of mesoscale eddies (from 0.06 to 0.12 m2 s−2), medium-to-high total concentration of nutrients (from 3 to 30μmol), and high wind stress (from 0.04 to 0.07 N m−2).
AB - Seasonal variability is one of the most powerful components in multiple scale variations of plankton communities. A comparison of the seasonal blooms of Noctiluca scintillans in individual basins is combined with a statistical analysis of the relationships between this species and environmental forcing factors. Seasonal patterns of Noctiluca scintillans abundance throughout the Bay of Biscay, the North Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, the Sea of Marmara, the Adriatic Sea, the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, the eastern Australian shelf and the Japanese shelf pointed to the persistence of unimodal and bimodal algal blooms, of which unimodal are most common. In general, the duration of the monsoon-induced blooms exceeds that of the temperate regions. A Principal Component Analysis of blooms and environmental characteristics over regions indicated maximal magnitudes of Noctiluca blooms occurring at a medium kinetic energy of mesoscale eddies (from 0.06 to 0.12 m2 s−2), medium-to-high total concentration of nutrients (from 3 to 30μmol), and high wind stress (from 0.04 to 0.07 N m−2).
KW - Algal blooms
KW - Bioluminescence
KW - Mesoscale eddies
KW - Seasonal cycles
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U2 - 10.1016/j.rsma.2021.101771
DO - 10.1016/j.rsma.2021.101771
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85104126083
SN - 2352-4855
VL - 44
JO - Regional Studies in Marine Science
JF - Regional Studies in Marine Science
M1 - 101771
ER -