Phytoplankton life strategies, phenological shifts and climate change in the North Atlantic Ocean from 1850‐2100 ...

• Main Authors: Kléparski, Loïck, Beaugrand, Grégory, Edwards, Martin, Ostle, Clare
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2023
• Subjects: FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Diatoms; Dinoflagellates; Climate and phenology; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nzs7h44wh; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.nzs7h44wh

Supporting data for the article entitled 'Phytoplankton life strategies, phenological shifts and climate change in the North Atlantic Ocean from 1850-2100'. Article abstract: Significant phenological shifts induced by climate change are projected within the phytoplankton community. However, projections from current Earth System Models (ESMs) understandably rely on simplified community responses that do not consider evolutionary strategies manifested as various phenotypes and trait groups. Here, we use a species-based modelling approach, combined with large-scale plankton observations, to investigate past, contemporary and future phenological shifts in diatoms (grouped by their morphological traits) and dinoflagellates in three key areas of the North Atlantic Ocean (North Sea, North-East Atlantic and Labrador Sea) from 1850 to 2100. Our study reveals that the three phytoplanktonic groups exhibit coherent and different shifts in phenology and abundance throughout the North Atlantic Ocean. The seasonal duration ... : Data can be opened with Matlab or GNU Octave. ...