Basin-Scale Coherence in Phenology of Shrimps and Phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean

Fine-Tuning Fisheries The past decade has seen a tremendous increase in our understanding of how climate anomalies affect hydrographic properties in North Atlantic Shelf ecosystems, but less about how these events impact organisms. Koeller et al. (p. 791 , see the Perspective by Greene et al. ) meas...

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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Koeller, P., Fuentes-Yaco, C., Platt, T., Sathyendranath, S., Richards, A., Ouellet, P., Orr, D., Skúladóttir, U., Wieland, K., Savard, L., Aschan, M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2009
Subjects:
Greene
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1170987
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1170987
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Summary:Fine-Tuning Fisheries The past decade has seen a tremendous increase in our understanding of how climate anomalies affect hydrographic properties in North Atlantic Shelf ecosystems, but less about how these events impact organisms. Koeller et al. (p. 791 , see the Perspective by Greene et al. ) measured the egg incubation and hatching times of an important fisheries resource, the pink North Atlantic shrimp, at a variety of locations and compared them to the timing of the local spring phytoplankton bloom. Shrimp reproduction was determined locally by bottom-water temperatures and was not directly coupled with the spring bloom. While the local bottom temperatures and bloom timing are well-matched in general, and match egg hatching to food availability, this evolved relationship can be decoupled by interannual variability and climate change.

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