Phytoplankton change in the North Atlantic

Reid, PC, Edwards, M, Hunt, HG and Warner, AJ 1998 Phytoplankton change in the North Atlantic. Nature, 391. 546. https://doi.org/10.1038/35290

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Abstract/Summary

A marked increase in global temperature over the last century was confirmed by the second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Here we report significant positive and negative linear trends from 1948 to 1995 in phytoplankton measured by the Continuous Plankton Recorder survey in the northeast Atlantic and North Sea that might reflect a response to changing climate on a timescale of decades. Spreading of unusually cold waters from the Arctic might have contributed to the decline in phytoplankton north of 59o N. Further south, phytoplankton season length and abundance seem to have increased.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Additional Keywords:	Long-term changes Climatic changes Phytoplankton Plankton surveys
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Divisions:	Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science > Other (SAHFOS) (expired)
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date made live:	05 Oct 2006
Last Modified:	25 Apr 2020 09:56
URI:	https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/1738

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