Plankton biogeography in the North Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas: Species assemblages and environmental signatures
Abstract Plankton biodiversity is a key component of marine pelagic ecosystems. They are at the base of the food web, control the productivity of marine ecosystems, and provide many provisioning and regulating ecological services. It is therefore important to understand how plankton are organized in...
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crwiley:10.1002/ece3.7406 2024-06-02T08:11:04+00:00 Plankton biogeography in the North Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas: Species assemblages and environmental signatures Kléparski, Loïck Beaugrand, Grégory Edwards, Martin 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7406 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.7406 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/ece3.7406 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ecology and Evolution volume 11, issue 10, page 5135-5149 ISSN 2045-7758 2045-7758 journal-article 2021 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7406 2024-05-03T11:14:00Z Abstract Plankton biodiversity is a key component of marine pelagic ecosystems. They are at the base of the food web, control the productivity of marine ecosystems, and provide many provisioning and regulating ecological services. It is therefore important to understand how plankton are organized in both space and time. Here, we use data of varying taxonomic resolution, collected by the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey, to map phytoplankton and zooplankton biodiversity in the North Atlantic and its adjacent seas. We then decompose biodiversity into 24 species assemblages and investigate their spatial distribution using ecological units and ecoregions recently proposed. Finally, we propose a descriptive method, which we call the environmental chromatogram, to characterize the environmental signature of each plankton assemblage. The method is based on a graphic that identifies where species of an assemblage aggregate along an environmental gradient composed of multiple ecological dimensions. The decomposition of the biodiversity into species assemblages allows us to show (a) that most marine regions of the North Atlantic are composed of coenoclines (i.e., gradients of biocoenoses or communities) and (b) that the overlapping spatial distribution of assemblages is the result of their environmental signatures. It follows that neither the ecoregions nor the ecological units identified in the North Atlantic are characterized by a unique assemblage but instead by a mosaic of assemblages that overlap in many places. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Wiley Online Library Ecology and Evolution 11 10 5135 5149 |
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Abstract Plankton biodiversity is a key component of marine pelagic ecosystems. They are at the base of the food web, control the productivity of marine ecosystems, and provide many provisioning and regulating ecological services. It is therefore important to understand how plankton are organized in both space and time. Here, we use data of varying taxonomic resolution, collected by the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey, to map phytoplankton and zooplankton biodiversity in the North Atlantic and its adjacent seas. We then decompose biodiversity into 24 species assemblages and investigate their spatial distribution using ecological units and ecoregions recently proposed. Finally, we propose a descriptive method, which we call the environmental chromatogram, to characterize the environmental signature of each plankton assemblage. The method is based on a graphic that identifies where species of an assemblage aggregate along an environmental gradient composed of multiple ecological dimensions. The decomposition of the biodiversity into species assemblages allows us to show (a) that most marine regions of the North Atlantic are composed of coenoclines (i.e., gradients of biocoenoses or communities) and (b) that the overlapping spatial distribution of assemblages is the result of their environmental signatures. It follows that neither the ecoregions nor the ecological units identified in the North Atlantic are characterized by a unique assemblage but instead by a mosaic of assemblages that overlap in many places. |
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Kléparski, Loïck Beaugrand, Grégory Edwards, Martin Plankton biogeography in the North Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas: Species assemblages and environmental signatures |
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Kléparski, Loïck Beaugrand, Grégory Edwards, Martin |
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Plankton biogeography in the North Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas: Species assemblages and environmental signatures |
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Plankton biogeography in the North Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas: Species assemblages and environmental signatures |
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Plankton biogeography in the North Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas: Species assemblages and environmental signatures |
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Plankton biogeography in the North Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas: Species assemblages and environmental signatures |
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Plankton biogeography in the North Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas: Species assemblages and environmental signatures |
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plankton biogeography in the north atlantic ocean and its adjacent seas: species assemblages and environmental signatures |
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