Radiolarian biogeographic contrast between spring of 2017 and winter of 2017-2018 in the South China Sea and Malacca Strait

Radiolarians are planktonic protozoon that play an important role in marine ecosystem and paleoenvironmental construction. The South China Sea (SCS) and Malacca Strait (MLS), strongly influenced by the East Asian monsoon, are the key gateway between the Pacific and Indian Oceans. However, a few plankton studies of radiolarians are performed during winter and spring in the SCS and MLS due to the adverse sea conditions. In this study the use of a ship-board plankton net rendered it possible to obtain shallow water samples (~5 m depth) along transects from the northern SCS to MLS during the sprin... Mehr ...