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Spatial Distribution of Phytoplankton in the Coastal Waters off Russkii Island (Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan)

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The species composition, abundance, and spatial distribution of the phytoplankton in the coastal waters surrounding Russkii Island were studied. A total of 144 taxa belonging to five microalgae classes were identified; their cell abundance varied between 36 000 and 4 700 000 cells/L, biomasses ranged from 0.2 to 18.3 g/m3. Blooms of Cyclotella spp.—Cyclotella sp., С. atomus var. gracilis, and С. choctawhatcheeana—were reported for the first time in the study area in September 2018. Comparison of species composition and abundance between the microalgal communities from Amur and Ussuri Bays revealed that, in summer, these communities shared a similar dominance pattern, and the most numerically important species were Skeletonema dohrnii, Pseudo-nitzschia delicatissima, and Prorocentrum triestinum, which are widely distributed and known to form blooms in the temperate waters of the world’s oceans. In autumn, the makeup of dominant species was different for each of the bays: in Ussuri Bay, the community was dominated by Cyclotella spp. in 2018 and by Skeletonema dohrnii in 2019; in Amur Bay, Thalassiosira spp. were major contributors to the phytoplankton in 2018; and Thalassiosira nordenskioeldii and Teleaulax amphioxeia took over the community in 2019. It has been hypothesized that the movement of species between the bays occurred through the Stark Strait and depended on the direction of prevailing winds.

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This work was carried out at the Primorsky Aquarium Shared Equipment Facility, A. V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, within the framework of state order no. 121082600038-3 “Dynamics of Marine Ecosystems, Adaptation of Marine Organisms and Communities to Habitat Changes.”

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Shevchenko, O.G., Tevs, K.O. Spatial Distribution of Phytoplankton in the Coastal Waters off Russkii Island (Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan). Oceanology 62, 794–805 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S000143702206011X

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