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IDENTIFYING PHYTOPLANKTON IN SEAWATER BASED ON DISCRETE EXCITATION‐EMISSION FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA 1
Author(s) -
Zhang Fang,
Su Rongguo,
He Jianfeng,
Cai Minghong,
Luo Wei,
Wang Xiulin
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of phycology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.85
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1529-8817
pISSN - 0022-3646
DOI - 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2009.00805.x
Subject(s) - biology , phytoplankton , genus , seawater , chaetoceros , botany , linear discriminant analysis , statistics , ecology , mathematics , nutrient
The feasibility of utilizing discrete excitation‐emission spectra (DEEMs) to identify dominant groups of phytoplankton at both the genus and division levels was investigated. First, the characteristics of in vivo DEEMs were extracted using Coif2 wavelet. Second, optimal characteristic spectra of scale vectors (SOCS) and time‐series vectors (TOCS) were selected by Fisher linear discriminant analysis (FLDA). Third, the SOCS and TOCS were sorted using hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), and a two‐rank database was established according to their discrimination ability. Fourth, the discrimination of phytoplankton was established by nonnegative least squares (NNLS). For single‐species samples, the correct identification ratios (CIRs) were 62.9%–100% at the genus level and 95.1%–100% at the division level. The dominant species in the mixtures had corresponding CIRs of 87.5% and 97.9%, and 23 dominant species were correctly identified. Prorocentrum donghaiense D. Lu, Thalassiosira nordenskioeldi Cleve, Chaetoceros socialis Lauder (bloom‐forming species with a density of about 10 7 cell·L −1 ), and Skeletonema costatum (Grev.) Cleve (a dominant species with a density of 10 4 –10 6 cell·L −1 in seawater) were identified at the genus level. Other dominant species in seawater were identified at the division level if their density was 10 5 –10 6 cell·L −1 .