title: Effects of regional climate changes on the planktonic ecosystem and water environment in the frozen Notoro Lagoon, northern Japan.
abstract: Diatom fossils from core sediments and living diatoms from water samples of Notoro Lagoon in northern Japan were examined to evaluate natural climate effects on lagoon environmental changes. In 1974, the artificial inlet was excavated. Immediately after, the anoxic bottom water in Notoro Lagoon began to disappear due to an increasing water exchange rate. However, chemical oxygen demand (COD) in the bottom water of Notoro Lagoon gradually increased, with fluctuations, during the last 30 years. In addition, the dominant diatom assemblages in Notoro Lagoon shifted to ice-related and spring bloom taxa after the excavation. The dominant taxa of each year in the sediment core were also strongly related to the timing of lagoon ice melting. This is because the COD in Notoro Lagoon was affected by the deposited volume of blooming diatoms, which was controlled by the duration of ice cover and the timing of ice discharge to the Okhotsk Sea likely due to an air pressure pattern change over the northern North Pacific like the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).
authors.affiliation: Geological Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Gwahang-no, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. kkota@kigam.re.kr
authors.forename: Kota
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Katsuki
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Seto
authors.forename: Takuro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Noguchi
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sonoda
authors.forename: JuYong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017756:Aquaculture; D057919:Biological Oxygen Demand Analysis; D002587:Cesium Isotopes / Q000032:analysis; D057231:Climate Change; D017377:Diatoms / Q000502:physiology; D017753:Ecosystem; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D019015:Geologic Sediments / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D046448:Ice Cover; D007564:Japan; D007854:Lead / Q000032:analysis; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D049897:Pectinidae / Q000502:physiology; D010933:Plankton / Q000502:physiology*; D011156:Population Density; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D002587:Cesium Isotopes; D007854:Lead