Large-scale study of Calanus in the North Atlantic Ocean: macroecological patterns and potential impacts of climate change ...

• Main Author: Helaouet, Pierre
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Plymouth 2009
• Subjects: North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.24382/1301; https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/2656

Marine ecosystems show natural fluctuation throughout a large range of spatial and temporal scales. Despite the large amount of study devoted to the North Atlantic Ocean, drivers of those fluctuations remain unclear. By changing global climate, polluting, introducing exotic species, expanding and intensifying land uses and overharvesting biological resources, human activities have degraded the global ecosystem and drastically accelerated species extinction rates. Consequences of this human forcing become apparent in the progressive degradation of ecosystem that are used by humans (Schroter et al. , 2005), climate change- induced shifts in species distributions toward the poles (Parmesan et al. , 1999) and higher elevations (Wilson et al. , 2005), and in rapidly changing phenology (Edwards & Richardson, 2004). Data collected by the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) constitutes, by both their temporal and biogeographical extends, one of the most useful datasets to investigate further major marine ...