Contrasting the assembly of phytoplankton and zooplankton communities in a polluted semi-closed sea: Effects of marine compartments and environmental selection

Occurrence and Ecological Impact of Chemical Mixtures in a Semiclosed Sea by Suspect Screening Analysis

“…Compartments of dense water and planktonic community were observed in this area due to effects of circulation. 22,41 As shown in Figure S9, the classification of sampling locations based on the hierarchical cluster analysis coincides with the variation of eddy flows, suggesting significant effects of the currents in shaping contaminant distribution.…”

“…The Bohai Sea is a semienclosed sea consisting of three shallow bays and a subsurface Central Bank. It is located in northeastern China, which is an area with condensed agricultural, industrial, and residential activities. − River inflow and direct coastal discharge are considered as the main routes of land-sourced pollutants into the sea . The characteristic of limited water exchange capacity with the open seas makes it an appropriate research area for evaluating the occurrence and fates of organic pollutants from terrestrial emissions.…”

How habitat heterogeneity shapes bacterial and protistan communities in temperate coastal areas near estuaries

“…Temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen were measured in situ with a water quality (YSI, USA). Suspended solids, chemical oxygen demand and petroleum hydrocarbons (PHs) were measured following methods outlined in a previous study (Zhao et al ., 2021). Nitrate and nitrite were detected according to a modified zinc–cadmium reduction procedure (Wu et al ., 2016a).…”

“…When the perspective is shifted from a global or continental scale to a specific regional area, differences in local community assembly mechanisms have been reported to be more important for the formation of site‐to‐site biogeographic patterns (Stegen et al ., 2013; Sun et al ., 2020; Zhou et al ., 2021). The most common microbial biogeographic pattern is the distance–decay of similarity (Nekola and White, 1999), which has been uncovered in multiple environments involving diverse microorganisms (Wang et al ., 2019; Lin et al ., 2021; Zhao et al ., 2021). The strength of the distance–decay of community similarity is influenced by both deterministic and stochastic processes (Chave, 2004; Stegen et al ., 2013; Vanwonterghem et al ., 2014).…”

“…The strength of the distance–decay of community similarity is influenced by both deterministic and stochastic processes (Chave, 2004; Stegen et al ., 2013; Vanwonterghem et al ., 2014). Among them, environmental filtering and passive dispersal are two major ecological processes that determine the distance–decay pattern of communities in connected aquatic ecosystem, such as rivers (Chen et al ., 2019), lakes (Wan et al ., 2021) and coastal areas (Zhao et al ., 2021). More importantly, the relative importance of these ecological processes for community assembly may vary depending on the type or traits of organisms (Ragon et al ., 2012; Padial et al ., 2014).…”