Journal
JOURNAL OF HYDRO-ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 239-247Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jher.2012.02.002
Keywords
South China Sea; Algal blooms; Spatial and temporal variations; Upwelling; Sea surface temperature
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC40976091, 31061160190]
- Foundation of Key Laboratory of Marine Biology (LMB/LAMB and LMM) [LMB081004]
- State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography of Chinese Academy of Sciences [LTO0801]
- Key Project of Knowledge Innovation Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences [kzcx2-yw-226]
- Guangdong Natural Science Foundation, China [8351030101000002, 2010B031900041]
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Algal blooms occur frequently in the coastal waters of the western South China Sea (SCS). This paper reports spatial and temporal variations of algal bloom events in these waters from 1993 to 2007. Twenty-five algal bloom events occurred in summer in the coastal waters of South and Central Vietnam where they were associated with wind-induced, coastal, nutrient upwelling and river discharges; a further eight events occurred in the coastal waters of North Vietnam. A greater number of algal bloom events were observed in 1999 and 2002, and were accompanied by several previously unobserved species for the study period. These events may be related to the El Nino events of 1998 and 2002. Furthermore, the bloom-causative species Trichodesmium erythraeum (Cyanophyta) entirely dominated the phytoplankton community of algal blooms during 1993-1999 whereas the species Phaeocystis globosa (Haptophyta) dominated blooms after 2002. This study establishes a basis for further long-term research of algal bloom event variations, and provides a compiled scientific reference that may be used for later prediction of Harmful algal blooms (HABs). (C) 2012 International Association for Hydro-environment Engineering and Research, Asia Pacific Division. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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