Effects of sea ice and wind speed on phytoplankton spring bloom in central and southern Baltic Sea
In this study, the effects of sea ice and wind speed on the timing and composition of phytoplankton spring bloom in the central and southern Baltic Sea are investigated by a hydrodynamic–biogeochemical model and observational data. The modelling experiment compared the results of a reference run in...
Published in: | PLOS ONE |
---|---|
Main Authors: | , , |
Other Authors: | |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2021
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242637 https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242637 |
id |
crplos:10.1371/journal.pone.0242637 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
crplos:10.1371/journal.pone.0242637 2024-09-30T14:42:48+00:00 Effects of sea ice and wind speed on phytoplankton spring bloom in central and southern Baltic Sea Pärn, Ove Lessin, Gennadi Stips, Adolf Anil, Arga Chandrashekar 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242637 https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242637 en eng Public Library of Science (PLoS) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ PLOS ONE volume 16, issue 3, page e0242637 ISSN 1932-6203 journal-article 2021 crplos https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242637 2024-09-10T04:18:27Z In this study, the effects of sea ice and wind speed on the timing and composition of phytoplankton spring bloom in the central and southern Baltic Sea are investigated by a hydrodynamic–biogeochemical model and observational data. The modelling experiment compared the results of a reference run in the presence of sea ice with those of a run in the absence of sea ice, which confirmed that ecological conditions differed significantly for both the scenarios. It has been found that diatoms dominate the phytoplankton biomass in the absence of sea ice, whereas dinoflagellates dominate the biomass in the presence of thin sea ice. The study concludes that under moderate ice conditions (representing the last few decades), dinoflagellates dominate the spring bloom phytoplankton biomass in the Baltic Sea, whereas diatoms will be dominant in the future as a result of climate change i.e. in the absence of sea ice. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice PLOS PLOS ONE 16 3 e0242637 |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
PLOS |
op_collection_id |
crplos |
language |
English |
description |
In this study, the effects of sea ice and wind speed on the timing and composition of phytoplankton spring bloom in the central and southern Baltic Sea are investigated by a hydrodynamic–biogeochemical model and observational data. The modelling experiment compared the results of a reference run in the presence of sea ice with those of a run in the absence of sea ice, which confirmed that ecological conditions differed significantly for both the scenarios. It has been found that diatoms dominate the phytoplankton biomass in the absence of sea ice, whereas dinoflagellates dominate the biomass in the presence of thin sea ice. The study concludes that under moderate ice conditions (representing the last few decades), dinoflagellates dominate the spring bloom phytoplankton biomass in the Baltic Sea, whereas diatoms will be dominant in the future as a result of climate change i.e. in the absence of sea ice. |
author2 |
Anil, Arga Chandrashekar |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
Pärn, Ove Lessin, Gennadi Stips, Adolf |
spellingShingle |
Pärn, Ove Lessin, Gennadi Stips, Adolf Effects of sea ice and wind speed on phytoplankton spring bloom in central and southern Baltic Sea |
author_facet |
Pärn, Ove Lessin, Gennadi Stips, Adolf |
author_sort |
Pärn, Ove |
title |
Effects of sea ice and wind speed on phytoplankton spring bloom in central and southern Baltic Sea |
title_short |
Effects of sea ice and wind speed on phytoplankton spring bloom in central and southern Baltic Sea |
title_full |
Effects of sea ice and wind speed on phytoplankton spring bloom in central and southern Baltic Sea |
title_fullStr |
Effects of sea ice and wind speed on phytoplankton spring bloom in central and southern Baltic Sea |
title_full_unstemmed |
Effects of sea ice and wind speed on phytoplankton spring bloom in central and southern Baltic Sea |
title_sort |
effects of sea ice and wind speed on phytoplankton spring bloom in central and southern baltic sea |
publisher |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
publishDate |
2021 |
url |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242637 https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242637 |
genre |
Sea ice |
genre_facet |
Sea ice |
op_source |
PLOS ONE volume 16, issue 3, page e0242637 ISSN 1932-6203 |
op_rights |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242637 |
container_title |
PLOS ONE |
container_volume |
16 |
container_issue |
3 |
container_start_page |
e0242637 |
_version_ |
1811644660554137600 |