Distribution of Size-Fractionated Chlorophyll a and Picocyanobacteria in Coastal Waters of Northwest and Southeast Peninsular Malaysia

Joon hai Lim; Choon Weng Lee; Xiaoju Pan; Yi You Wong; Chui Wei Bong; Kumaran Narayanan; Edmund Ui Hang Sim; Tung Yuan Ho; George T.F. Wong

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Distribution of Size-Fractionated Chlorophyll a and Picocyanobacteria in Coastal Waters of Northwest and Southeast Peninsular Malaysia

Joon Hai Lim ^[1] ; Choon Weng Lee ^[1] ; Xiaoju Pan ^[4] ; Yi You Wong ^[1] ; Chui Wei Bong ^[1] ; Kumaran Narayanan ^[2] ; Edmund Ui Hang Sim ^[3] ; Tung Yuan Ho ^[5] ; George TF Wong ^[5]
1. [1] University of Malaya
  
  University of Malaya
  
  Malasia
2. [2] Monash University
  
  Monash University
  
  Australia
3. [3] Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
  
  Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
  
  Malasia
4. [4] Hainan Tropical Ocean University
5. [5] Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei
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Localización: Thalassas: An international journal of marine sciences, ISSN 0212-5919, Vol. 41, Nº. 4, 2025
Idioma: inglés
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- Sampling was at two coastal sites in Peninsular Malaysia; Yan (along Straits of Malacca during Northeast and inter-monsoon) and Kuala Rompin (KR, facing the South China Sea during Southwest monsoon). Despite temporal offsets in sampling, distinct spatial patterns of nutrients and picocyanobacteria were observed. Nutrient variability at Yan was influenced by freshwater discharge, and there was a predominance of NH4 (51 ± 25% of dissolved inorganic nitrogen). At KR, conditions were more stable and less eutrophic, and NO2 + NO3 predominated (53 ± 25% of dissolved inorganic nitrogen). Although the > 20 μm Chl a fraction was predominant, only Prochlorococcus (from 70 to 1.2 × 104 cells mL–1) correlated with the < 2 μm Chl a fraction at Yan (R2 = 0.221, p < 0.01) whereas at KR, only Synechococcus (from 100 to 8.5 × 104 cells mL–1) correlated with the < 2 μm Chl a fraction (R2 = 0.135, p < 0.05). Redundancy Analysis (RDA) revealed that Synechococcus was associated with higher salinity and lower temperature, DO, PO₄ and NO₂+NO₃ while Prochlorococcus occupied a distinct niche along a separate RDA axis. This baseline study is a novel investigation into picocyanobacterial dynamics for Malaysia, and reveals their niche differentiation in tropical coastal systems