Sedimentation of planktonic foraminifera in the East China Sea: Evidence from a sediment trap experiment

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 49, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 3-20

  Yamasaki, Makoto ^a   Oda, Motoyoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

East China Sea; Foraminifera, lateral transport; Kuroshio

Indexed keywords

PARTICULATE FLUX; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEDIMENT TRAP; SEDIMENTATION;

EAST CHINA SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 1642278029     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(03)00024-0     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Akimoto K. Distribution of Recent benthic foraminiferal faunas in the Pacific off Southwest Japan and around Hachijojima Island. Sci. Rep. Tohoku Univ. (Geol.). 60:1990;139-233.
2. Baker E.T., Milburn H.B., Tennant D.A. Field assessment of sediment trap efficiency under varying flow conditions. J. Mar. Res. 46:1988;573-592.
3. Bé, A.W.H., 1977. An ecological, zoogeographic and taxonomic review of recent planktic foraminifera. In: Ramsay, A.T.S. (Ed.), Oceanic Micropalaeontology, vol 1. Academic Press, London, pp. 1-100.
4. Bé, A.W.H., Tolderlund, D.S., 1971. Distribution and ecology of living planktic foraminifera in surface waters of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In: Funnel, B.M., Riedel, W.R. (Eds.), The Micropaleontology of the Oceans. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 105-149.
5. Bradshaw J.S. Ecology of living planktic foraminifera in the North and Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Contrib. Cushman Found. Foraminif. Res. 10:1959;25-64.
6. Brunner C.A., Biscaye P.E. Storm-driven transport of foraminifers from the shelf to the upper slope, southern Middle Atlantic Bight. Cont. Shelf Res. 17:1997;491-508.
7. Curry W.B., Thunell R.C., Honjo S. Seasonal changes in the isotopic composition of planktic foraminifera collected in Panama Basin sediment traps. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 64:1983;33-43.
8. Curry, W.B., Ostermann, D.R., Guptha, M.V.S., Ittekkot, V., 1992. Foraminiferal production and monsoonal upwelling in the Arabian Sea: Evidence from sediment traps. In: Summerhayes, C.P., Prell, W.L., Emeis, K.C. (Eds.), Upwelling Systems: Evolution since the Early Miocene. The Geological Society of London, pp. 93-106.
9. Deuser W.G., Ross E.H., Hemleben C., Spindler M. Seasonal changes in species composition, numbers, mass, size, and isotopic composition of planktic foraminifera settling into the deep Sargasso Sea. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 33:1981;103-127.
10. Duplessy J.C., Bé A.W.H., Blanc P.L. Oxygen and carbon isotopic composition and biogeographic distribution of planktic foraminifera in the Indian Ocean. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 33:1981;9-46.
11. Fairbanks R.G., Sverdlove M., Free R., Wiebe P.H., Bé A.W.H. Vertical distribution and isotopic fractionation of living planktic foraminifera from the Panama Basin. Nature. 298:1982;841-844.
12. Falkowski P.G., Biscaye P.E., Sancetta C. The lateral flux of biogenic particles from the eastern North American continental margin to the North Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Res. II. 41:1994;583-601.
13. Furuya, K., Harada, K., Odate, T., 1995. Primary production and community respiration in the East China Sea in winter and fall. In: Tsunogai, S., Iseki, K., Koike, I., Oba, T. (Eds.), Global Fluxes of Carbon and its Related Substances in the Coastal Sea-Ocean-Atmosphere System. M&J International, Yokohama, pp. 84-89.
14. Gardner W.D. Sediment trap dynamics and calibration: A laboratory evaluation. J. Mar. Res. 38:1980;17-39.
15. Guptha M.V.S., Curry W.B., Ittekkot V., Muralinath A.S. Seasonal variation in the flux of planktic foraminifera: sediment trap results from the Bay of Bengal, northern Indian Ocean. J. Foraminif. Res. 27:1997;5-19.
16. Hama T., Shin K.H., Handa N. Spatial variability in the primary productivity in the East China Sea and its adjacent waters. J. Oceanogr. 53:1997;41-51.
17. Honjo S. Sedimentation of materials in the Sargasso Sea at a 5,367 m deep station. J. Mar. Res. 36:1978;469-492.
18. Honjo S., Spencer D.W., Farrington J.W. Deep advective transport of lithogenic particles in Panama Basin. Science. 216:1982;516-518.
19. Hoshika, A., Tanimoto, T., Mishima, Y., Iseki, K., Okamura, K., 1995. Seasonal variability in particle distributions and fluxes in the East China Sea. In: Tsunogai, S., Iseki, K., Koike, I., Oba, T. (Eds.), Global Fluxes of Carbon and its Related Substances in the Coastal Sea-Ocean-Atmosphere System. M&J International, Yokohama, pp. 171-176.
20. Imai M., Ebara S., Kawashima K., Kubo N., Sato N., Moriyama E. Seasonal variation of chlorophyll-a in the seas around Japan. Oceanogr. Mag. 38:1988;23-32.
21. Inoue Y. Northwest Pacific foraminifera as paleoenvironmental indicators. Sci. Rept. Geosci. Univ. Tsukuba B (Geol. Sci.). 10:1989;57-162.
22. Ito T., Kaneko A., Furukawa H., Gohda N., Koteruyama W. A structure of the Kuroshio and its related upwelling on the East China Sea shelf slope. J. Oceanogr. 51:1995;267-278.
23. Kaneko A., Gohda N., Koterayama W., Nakamura M., Mizuno S., Furukawa H. Towed ADCP fish with depth and roll controllable wings and its application to the Kuroshio observation. J. Oceanogr. 49:1993;383-395.
24. Oguri, K., Matsumoto, E., Saito, Y., Hama, T., Yamada, M., Narita, H., Iseki, K., 1997. Rate of sediment accumulation and carbon burial measured with 210Pb in the East China Sea. In: Tsunogai, S. (Ed.), Biogeochemical Processes in the North Pacific. Japan Marine Science Foundation, Tokyo, pp. 360-367.
25. Reynolds L., Thunell R.C. Seasonal succession of planktonic foraminifera in the subpolar North Pacific. J. Foraminif. Res. 15:1985;282-301.
26. Sugimoto T., Kimura S., Miyaji K. Meander of the Kuroshio front and current variability in the East China Sea. J. Oceanogr. Soc. Jpn. 44:1988;125-135.
27. Takahashi K., Bé A.W.H. Planktic foraminifera: Factors controlling sinking speeds. Deep-Sea Res. 31:1984;1477-1500.
28. Takemoto A., Oda M. New planktic foraminiferal transfer functions for the Kuroshio-Oyashio Current Region off Japan. Paleontol. Res. 1:1997;291-310.
29. Tanaka Y. Sedimentary processes from the shelf edge to the Okinawa Trough in the East China Sea based on the coccolith assemblage (in Japanese with English abstract). J. Sediment. Soc. Jpn. 44:1997;33-41.
30. Thunell R.C., Honjo S. Planktic foraminiferal flux to the deep ocean: Sediment trap results from the tropical Atlantic and the central Pacific. Mar. Geol. 40:1981;237-253.
31. Thunell R.C., Reynolds L.A. Sedimentation of planktic foraminifera: Seasonal changes in species flux in the Panama Basin. Micropaleontology. 30:1984;243-260.
32. Thunell R.C., Curry W.B., Honjo S. Seasonal variation in the flux of planktic foraminifera: time series sediment trap results from the Panama Basin. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 64:1983;44-55.
33. Walton W.R. Techniques for recognition of living foraminifera. Contrib. Cushman Found. Foraminif. Res. 3:1952;56-60.
34. Watanabe, Y., Abe, K., Kusakabe, M., 1995. Characteristics of the nutrients distribution in the East China Sea. In: Tsunogai, S., Iseki, K., Koike, I., Oba, T. (Eds.), Global Fluxes of Carbon and its Related Substances in the Coastal Sea-Ocean-Atmosphere System. M&J International, Yokohama, pp. 54-60.
35. Xu X., Oda M. Surface-water evolution of the eastern East China Sea during the last 36,000 years. Mar. Geol. 156:1999;285-304.
36. 210Pb in settling particles on the East China Sea continental margin: The 1993-1994 MASFLEX. In: Tsunogai, S., Iseki, K., Koike, I., Oba, T. (Eds.), Global Fluxes of Carbon and its Related Substances in the Coastal Sea-Ocean-Atmosphere System. M&J International, Yokohama, pp. 226-231.
37. Yanagi T., Shimizu T., Lie H.-J. Detailed structure of the Kuroshio frontal eddy along the shelf edge of the East China Sea. Cont. Shelf Res. 18:1998;1039-1056.