Climate-induced long-term variations in ecosystem structure and atmosphere-ocean-ecosystem processes in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea

Ma, Shouxiang; Liu, Yang; Li, Jianchao; Fu, Caihong; Ye, Zhenjiang; Sun, Peng; Yu, Haiqing; Jia-hua, Cheng; Tian, Yongjun

doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2019.04.008

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“…All these large-scale climatic indices (short as CIs) are derived from open-access online databases and have a monthly temporal scale for the period 1963-2016. These CIs are well documented and largely associated with variations in the fish communities and ecosystems in the North Pacific (Tian et al, 2014;Liu et al, 2019;Ma et al, 2019).…”

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“…• E and for the period of 1963-2010 were obtained from the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation Reanalysis (SODA) (Carton and Giese, 2008). Winter (from January to March, a period that is frequently used in relevant researches in northwestern North Pacific) (e.g., Ma et al, 2019) means in each SST grid were calculated for further analyses.…”

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“…Linear correlations among PCs, EOFs, and CIs were estimated using Pearson correlation analyses similar to those of Ma et al, 2019. The number of degrees of freedom of coefficients obtained from the significance tests was adjusted based on the potential autocorrelation in the covariates (Pyper and Peterman, 1998).…”

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“…Contrastingly, studies in the northwestern North Pacific (Figure 1) have been carried out independent of each other in different regions. Studies in Chinese (Ma et al, 2019), Korean (Zhang et al, 2000(Zhang et al, , 2007, and Japanese waters (Tian et al, 2006(Tian et al, , 2008Yatsu et al, 2013) have all demonstrated strong linkages between regional ecosystems and climatic/environmental conditions. However, these regional studies have not yet been integrated to show general patterns in climate-ecosystem relationships, which prevents from a holistic understanding of climate-induced ecosystem variability in the northwestern North Pacific.…”

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“…Therefore, these climate variability patterns may contribute less to ecosystem variability in the northwestern North Pacific. Aside from the patterns in the PDO, NPGO, and ENSO (SOI), studies in the northwestern North Pacific always consider the Arctic Oscillation Index (AOI), East Asian Monsoon Index (MOI), and Siberian High Index (SHI, variations in Siberian High pressure system) in order to explore more potential links between climate variability patterns and regional environment and ecosystem variability (Tian et al, 2014;Jung et al, 2017;Liu et al, 2019;Ma et al, 2019). However, the ecological importance of these climate variability patterns has not been evaluated, which may hamper predictions of climateinduced ecosystem variability in the northwestern North Pacific.…”

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Climate Variability Patterns and Their Ecological Effects on Ecosystems in the Northwestern North Pacific

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Climate-induced ecosystem variability is an increasing concern in recent years. Integrated researches in the northeastern North Pacific have proved the ecological importance of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO), and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) to the ecosystem variability. While in the northwestern North Pacific, researches have been independent of each other over different regional ecosystems, and identified relatively weak linkages between these climatic indices (e.g., PDO, NPGO, and ENSO) and variations in the regional ecosystems. Such disassociated researches with unidentified important climate variability patterns may have hampered a holistic understanding of climate-induced ecosystem variability in the northwestern North Pacific. Furthermore, non-stationarity in climate-biology relationships has been proven to be important for ecosystems in the northeastern North Pacific but has not yet been studied in the northwestern North Pacific. Therefore, this research compiles biological, environmental, and climatic data in ecosystems in the northwestern North Pacific and employs a suite of analytical techniques, aiming to provide a holistic understanding of the climate-induced ecosystem variability. It shows that ecosystems in the northwestern North Pacific had a leading regime shift in the late 1980s in response to climate variability. The Siberian High, Arctic Oscillation, and East Asian Monsoon exhibit greater ecological importance to ecosystem variability than the PDO, NPGO, and ENSO. Their variations contribute greatly to sea surface temperature changes and thus variations in ecosystems. Furthermore, modified models considering non-stationary relationships achieve better performances than stationary models, suggesting the existence of non-stationarity in climate-biology relationships in the northwestern North Pacific. This non-stationarity resulted from the decline in variance of the sea level pressure in Siberian High rather than the Aleutian Low as suggested by previous studies in the northeastern North Pacific. Our research provides an improved understanding of the climate-induced ecosystem variability in the northwestern North Pacific, offering implications for further research on the entire North Pacific.

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Age, growth, and mortality rate of the yellow goosefish Lophius litulon (Jordan, 1902) in the Yellow Sea

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With the decline in the most fi sheries resources in the Yellow Sea, the yellow goosefi sh Lophius litulon has increased in commercial and ecological importance in recent years. We studied the length distribution, length-weight relationship, age composition, growth pattern, mortality, and exploitation rates of the yellow goosefi sh in the Yellow Sea. Total length (TL) of females and males ranged from 173 to 582 mm and 178 to 500 mm, respectively. The length-weight relationships were also estimated for females and males. Age classes from 2 to 4 years predominated in the samples. The von Bertalanff y growth function (VBGF), estimated based on non-linear least-squares methodology, showed signifi cant diff erences between sexes. Females attained a greater estimated asymptotic total length (765 mm TL) compared to males (579 mm TL). The VBGF did not diff er signifi cantly between stocks of the northern Yellow Sea and the southern Yellow Sea. Estimated natural instantaneous mortality rate ( M ) ranged from 0.25 to 0.33/a based on four age-and length-based methods. Total instantaneous mortality rate ( Z ) of total samples calculated by the age-based catch curve method was 0.591/a and the average fi shing mortality ( F ) was 0.30/a. Estimated exploitation rate ( E ) was approximately 0.5, indicating that the population of L . litulon in the Yellow Sea may be sustainable. These results provide a reference for the present status of L . litulon and information for the management.

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Climate-induced long-term variations in ecosystem structure and atmosphere-ocean-ecosystem processes in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea

Cited by 53 publications

References 90 publications

Climate Variability Patterns and Their Ecological Effects on Ecosystems in the Northwestern North Pacific

Climate Variability Patterns and Their Ecological Effects on Ecosystems in the Northwestern North Pacific

Transcriptomic insights into the acclimatization response of the cold-water Ophiuroid Ophiopholis mirabilis to elevated temperatures

Age, growth, and mortality rate of the yellow goosefish Lophius litulon (Jordan, 1902) in the Yellow Sea

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