Spectral characterization of eight marine phytoplankton phyla and assessing a pigment-based taxonomic discriminant analysis for the in situ classification of phytoplankton blooms
Zieger, S.E.; Seoane, S.; Laza-Martínez, A.; Knaus, A.; Mistlberger, G.; Klimant, I. (2018). Spectral characterization of eight marine phytoplankton phyla and assessing a pigment-based taxonomic discriminant analysis for the in situ classification of phytoplankton blooms. Environ. Sci. Technol. 52(24): 14266-14274. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b04528
In: Environmental Science and Technology. American Chemical Society: Easton. ISSN 0013-936X; e-ISSN 1520-5851, more
Early stage identification of harmful algal blooms (HABs) has gained significance for marine monitoring systems over the years. Various approaches for in situ classification have been developed. Among them, pigment-based taxonomic classification is one promising technique for in situ characterization of bloom compositions, although it is yet underutilized in marine monitoring programs. To demonstrate the applicability and importance of this powerful approach for monitoring programs, we combined an ultra low-cost and miniaturized multichannel fluorometer with Fisher’s linear discriminant analysis (LDA). This enables the real-time characterization of algal blooms at order level based on their spectral properties. The classification capability of the algorithm was examined with a leave-one-out cross validation of 53 different unialgal cultures conducted in terms of standard statistical measures and independent figures of merit. The separation capability of the linear discriminant analysis was further successfully examined in mixed algal suspensions. Besides this, the impact of the growing status on the classification capability was assessed. Further, we provide a comprehensive study of spectral features of eight different phytoplankton phyla including an extensive study of fluorescence excitation spectra and marker pigments analyzed via HPLC. The analyzed phytoplankton species belong to the phyla of Cyanobacteria, Dinophyta (Dinoflagellates), Bacillariophyta (Diatoms), Haptophyta, Chlorophyta, Ochrophyta, Cryptophyta, and Euglenophyta.
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Zieger S.E.; Mistlberger G.; Klimant I.; Aarhus University Center for Water Technology (WATEC), Department for Biology, Microbiology: Denmark; Graz University of Technology, Institute for Analytical Chemistry and Food Chemistry (TU Graz-ACFC): Austria; (2020): Supervised pattern recognition for pigment-based chemotaxonomy of marine phytoplankton for early-stage identification of potentially toxin producing species. Marine Data Archive., more
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