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Biomarker evidence for paleoenvironmental changes in the southern Yellow Sea over the last 8200 years |
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| Authors: | Lei Xing Meixun Zhao Hailong Zhang Xiaochen Zhao Xiaohui Zhao Zuosheng Yang Chuanlian Liu |
| Institution: | 1. Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China 2. College of Marine Geoscience, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China 3. Sate Key Laboratory Of Marine Geology, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China |
| Abstract: | Previous studies have indicated that the Yellow Sea underwent significant environmental changes during the Holocene, but many questions remain concerning the timing of the establishment of the modern circulation system, which would have major implications for the Yellow Sea ecosystem and carbon cycle. In this study, marine and terrestrial biomarkers were analyzed in Core YE-2 from a muddy area in the southern Yellow Sea to reconstruct Holocene environmental and phytoplankton community change. The content of three individual marine phytoplankton biomarkers (alkenones, brassicasterol and dinosterol) all display a similar trend, and their total contents during the early Holocene (362 ng/g) were lower than those during the mid-late Holocene (991 ng/g). On the other hand, the contents of terrestrial biomarkers (C27+C29+C31 n-alkanes) during the early Holocene (1 661 ng/g) were about three times higher than those during the mid-late Holocene (499 ng/g). Our biomarker results suggest that the modern circulation system of the Yellow Sea was established by 5–6 ka, and resulted in higher marine productivity and lower terrestrial organic matter inputs. Biomarker ratios were used to estimate shifts in phytoplankton community structure in response to mid-Holocene (5–6 ka) environmental changes in the Yellow Sea, revealing a transition from a dinoflagellate-diatom dominant community structure during the early Holocene to a coccolithophore-dominant dominant community structure during the mid-late Holocene. |
| Keywords: | biomarker Yellow Sea muddy area paleoproductivity phytoplankton community structure |
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