Characterization of phytoplankton communities in the lower St. LawrenceEstuary using HPLC-detected pigments and cell microscopy

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 142, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 55-73

  Roy, Suzanne ^a,b   Chanut, Jean Pierre ^a,c   Gosselin, Michel ^a,c   Sime Ngando, Télesphore ^d  

^a GREC Groupe de Recherche en Environnement Côtier   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Cell microscopy; Clusteranalysis; HPLC; Phytoplankton communities; Pigments; St. Lawrence Estuary

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; CELL MICROSCOPY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIATOM; HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HPLC PIGMENTS; MICROSCOPY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY; PIGMENT;

CANADA, QUEBEC, ST. LAWRENCE ESTUARY;

CHLOROPHYCEAE; CHRYSOPHYCEAE; CRYPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0030303987     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps142055     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Barlow RG, Mantoura RFC, Gough MA, Fileman TW (1993) Pigment signatures of the phytoplankton composition in the northeastern Atlantic during the 1990 spring bloom. Deep Sea Res 40:459-477
2. Barlow RG, Mantoura RFC, Peinert R, Miller AEJ, Fileman TW (1995) Distribution, sedimentation and fate of pigment biomarkers following thermal stratification in the western Alboran Sea. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 125:279-291
3. Bathman U, Liebezeit G (1986) Chlorophyll in copepod fecal pellets: changes in pellet numbers and pigment content during a declining Baltic spring bloom. PSZN I: Mar Ecol 7:59-73
4. Bidigare RR (1989) Photosynthetic pigment composition of the brown tide alga: unique chlorophyll and carotenoid derivatives. Coastal Estuarine Stud 35:57-75
5. Bidigare RR, Kennicutt MC II, Ondrusek ME, Keller MD, Guillard RRL (1990) Novel chlorophyll-related compounds in marine phytoplankton: distributions and geochemical implications. Energy & Fuels 4:653-657
6. Bjornland T, Pennington FC, Haxo FT, Liaaen-Jensen S (1984) Carotenoids of Chrysophyceae and Dinophyceae 'Coc. Min Haltenbanken' and Gymnodinium breve (Florida red tide). In: Abstract 7th Int IUPAC Symposium on Carotenoids, Munich, p 21
7. Bjornland T, Tangen K (1979) Pigmentation and morphology of a marine Gyrodinium (Dinophyceae) with a major carotenoid different from peridinin and fucoxanthin. J Phycol 15:457-463
8. Bray RJ, Curtis JT (1957) An ordination of the upland forest communities of southern Wisconsin. Ecol Monogr 27: 325-349
9. Cardinal A, Lafleur PE (1977) Le phytoplancton estival de l'estuaire maritime du Saint-Laurent. Soc Phycol de France Bull 22:150-160
10. Cembella AD, Therriault JC (1989) Population dynamics and toxin composition of Protogonyaulax tamarensis from the St. Lawrence estuary. In: Okaichi T, Anderson DM, Nemoto T (eds) Red tides: biology, environmental science and toxicology. Elsevier Science Publishing Co Ine, New York, p 81-84
11. Chisholm SW, Olson RO, Zettler ER, Goericke R, Waterbury JB, Welschmeyer NA (1988) A novel free-living prochlorophyte abundant in the oceanic euphotic zone. Nature 334: 340-343
12. Claustre H, Kerhervé P, Marty JC, Prieur L, Videau C, Hecq JH (1994) Phytoplankton dynamics associated with a geostrophic front: ecological and biogeochemical implications. J Mar Res 52:711-742
13. Davies BH (1976) Carotenoids. In: Goodwin TW (ed) Chemistry and biochemistry of plant pigments, 2nd edn, Vol 2. Academic Press, London, p 38-165
14. Demers S, Roy S, Gagnon R, Vignault C (1991) Rapid light-induced changes in cell fluorescence and in xanthophyllcycle pigments of Alexandrium excavatum (Dinophyceae) and Thalassiosira pseudonana (Bacillariophyceae): a photo-protection mechanism. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 76: 185-193
15. Egeland ES, Eikrem W, Throndsen J, Wilhelm C, Zapata M, Liaaen-Jensen S (1995) Carotenoids from further Prasinophytes. Biochem Syst Ecol 23:747-755
16. Everitt DA, Wright SW, Volkman JK, Thomas DP, Lindstrom EJ (1990) Phytoplankton community compositions in the western equatorial Pacific determined from chlorophyll and carotenoid pigment distributions. Deep Sea Res 37: 975-997
17. Gieskes WWC (1991) Algal pigment fingerprints: clue to taxon-specific abundance, productivity and degradation of phytoplankton in seas and oceans. In: Demers S (ed) Particle analysis in oceanography. NATO ASI G27, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p 61-99
18. Gieskes WWC, Kraay GW (1983) Unknown chlorophyll a derivatives in the North Sea and the tropical Atlantic Ocean revealed by HPLC analysis. Limnol Oceanogr 28: 757-766
19. Gieskes WWC, Kraay GW, Nontji A, Setiapermana D, Sutomo (1988) Monsoonal alternation of a mixed and layered structure in the phytoplankton of the euphotic zone of the Banda Sea (Indonesia): a mathematical analysis of algal pigment fingerprints. Neth J Sea Res 22:123-137
20. Goericke R, Repeta DJ (1992) The pigments of Prochlorococcus marinus: the presence of divinyl chlorophyll a and b in a marine procaryote. Limnol Oceanogr 37:425-433
21. Goericke R, Repeta DJ (1993) Chlorophylls a and b and divinyl chlorophylls a and b in the open subtropical North Atlantic Ocean. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 101:307-313
22. Goodwin TW (1980) The biochemistry of the carotenoids. Chapman and Hall, London
23. Gratton Y, Mertz G, Gagné JA (1988) Satellite observations of tidal upwelling and mixing in the St. Lawrence estuary. J Geophys Res 93(C6):6947-6954
24. Hager A, Stransky H (1970) Das Carotinoidmuster und die Verbreitung des lichtinduzierten Xanthophyllcyclus in verschiedenen Algenklassen. V. Einzelne Vertreter der Cryptophyceae, Euglenophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Chrysophyceae und Phaeophyceae. Arch Mikrobiol 73: 77-89
25. Hallegraeff GM (1981) Seasonal study of phytoplankton pigments and species at a coastal station off Sidney: importance of diatoms and the nanoplankton. Mar Biol 61: 107-118
26. Hallegraeff GM, Jeffrey SW (1985) Description of new chlorophyll a alteration products in marine phytoplankton. Deep Sea Res 32:697-705
27. Head EJH, Hargrave BT, Subba Rao DV (1994) The accumulation of a phaeophorbide a-like pigment in sediment traps during the late stages of a spring bloom: a product of dying algae? Limnol Oceanogr 39: 176-181
28. Head EJH, Harris LR (1992) Chlorophyll and carotenoid transformation and destruction by Calanus spp. grazing on diatoms. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 86:229-238
29. Hertzberg S, Liaaen-Jensen S (1969) The structure of myxoxanthophyll. Phytochemistry 8:1259-1280
30. Holm-Hansen O, Lorenzen CJ, Holmes RN, Strickland JDH (1965) Fluorometric determination of chlorophyll. J Cons Int Explor Mer 30:3-15