Hyuntae Choi , Seeryang Seong , Nayeon Park , Seunghan Lee , Dokyun Kim , Wonchoel Lee , Kyung-Hoon Shin
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Abstract
Spatial variation and interspecies differences in the trophic position (TP) of copepods were investigated using nitrogen isotope ratios of amino acids. In the summer of 2021, coastal waters and the Changjiang diluted water generated clear seawater temperature and salinity fronts in the South Sea of Korea. Paracalanus parvus s. l. was a dominant species in the copepod community, and the second dominant species differed among inshore, intermediate, and offshore sites. The TP of each copepod species was estimated in two ways, considering only metazoan diets (TPGlu, based on glutamic acid and phenylalanine nitrogen isotope ratios) and both metazoan and protistan diets (TPAla, based on alanine and phenylalanine nitrogen isotope ratios). Both TPGlu and TPAla indicated trophic variability among copepod species and the contribution of protistan diets as a food source in the study area. Calanus sinicus showed a similar herbivorous TP of 2.0 in both TPGlu and TPAla, suggesting little contribution from protistan diets. Two copepod species (P. parvus s. l. and Acartia omorii) exhibited TPGlu values of approximately 2.0 but their TPAla values increased from 0.1 to 0.5, indicating mixed diets of both primary producers and protists. The other three copepods (Pseudocalanus sp., Oithona similis, and O. atlantica) showed a wide range in TPGlu (2.4–3.1) and TPAla (2.7–3.4), suggesting that protistan trophic transfers enhance TPAla (by up to 0.5) in omnivorous copepods. We found a spatial variation in the TPs of copepods among water masses by various controlling factors including surface seawater temperature, salinity, and size-fractionated Chl-a. Our findings support that the TP values could be potential indicative of interspecies variability, providing useful information on the composition of the planktonic food web.
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Continental Shelf Research publishes articles dealing with the biological, chemical, geological and physical oceanography of the shallow marine environment, from coastal and estuarine waters out to the shelf break. The continental shelf is a critical environment within the land-ocean continuum, and many processes, functions and problems in the continental shelf are driven by terrestrial inputs transported through the rivers and estuaries to the coastal and continental shelf areas. Manuscripts that deal with these topics must make a clear link to the continental shelf. Examples of research areas include:
Physical sedimentology and geomorphology
Geochemistry of the coastal ocean (inorganic and organic)
Marine environment and anthropogenic effects
Interaction of physical dynamics with natural and manmade shoreline features
Benthic, phytoplankton and zooplankton ecology
Coastal water and sediment quality, and ecosystem health
Benthic-pelagic coupling (physical and biogeochemical)
Interactions between physical dynamics (waves, currents, mixing, etc.) and biogeochemical cycles
Estuarine, coastal and shelf sea modelling and process studies.