{"title":"Why did the world's largest green tides occur exclusively in the southern Yellow Sea?","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.marenvres.2024.106671","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The world's largest green tide, caused by the nuisance green algae <em>Ulva prolifera</em>, has occurred in the southern Yellow Sea for 16 consecutive years. It is puzzling why the extensive floating green tide occurs exclusively in the southern Yellow Sea, rather than other waters. We speculate that the transition of <em>U. prolifera</em> from a sessile state to a surface-floating one is the underlying cause of the floating green tide. Here we founded that the floating of <em>U. prolifera</em> was attributed to detachment from substrata and appropriate desiccation. The convergence of unreasonable green algae disposal, geographical features and farming patterns of <em>Porphyra</em> (economic red algae) in Subei Shoal contributed to mass production of floating <em>U. prolifera</em>, resulting in the exclusive occurrence of the floating green tides. Inducing the natural inactivation of green algae to prevent the floating of <em>U. prolifera</em> may effectively mitigate the extensive <em>Ulva</em> bloom at zero cost.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":18204,"journal":{"name":"Marine environmental research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Marine environmental research","FirstCategoryId":"93","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141113624003325","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The world's largest green tide, caused by the nuisance green algae Ulva prolifera, has occurred in the southern Yellow Sea for 16 consecutive years. It is puzzling why the extensive floating green tide occurs exclusively in the southern Yellow Sea, rather than other waters. We speculate that the transition of U. prolifera from a sessile state to a surface-floating one is the underlying cause of the floating green tide. Here we founded that the floating of U. prolifera was attributed to detachment from substrata and appropriate desiccation. The convergence of unreasonable green algae disposal, geographical features and farming patterns of Porphyra (economic red algae) in Subei Shoal contributed to mass production of floating U. prolifera, resulting in the exclusive occurrence of the floating green tides. Inducing the natural inactivation of green algae to prevent the floating of U. prolifera may effectively mitigate the extensive Ulva bloom at zero cost.
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Marine Environmental Research publishes original research papers on chemical, physical, and biological interactions in the oceans and coastal waters. The journal serves as a forum for new information on biology, chemistry, and toxicology and syntheses that advance understanding of marine environmental processes.
Submission of multidisciplinary studies is encouraged. Studies that utilize experimental approaches to clarify the roles of anthropogenic and natural causes of changes in marine ecosystems are especially welcome, as are those studies that represent new developments of a theoretical or conceptual aspect of marine science. All papers published in this journal are reviewed by qualified peers prior to acceptance and publication. Examples of topics considered to be appropriate for the journal include, but are not limited to, the following:
– The extent, persistence, and consequences of change and the recovery from such change in natural marine systems
– The biochemical, physiological, and ecological consequences of contaminants to marine organisms and ecosystems
– The biogeochemistry of naturally occurring and anthropogenic substances
– Models that describe and predict the above processes
– Monitoring studies, to the extent that their results provide new information on functional processes
– Methodological papers describing improved quantitative techniques for the marine sciences.