Long-term changes in zooplankton and the climate of the North Atlantic
Long-term variations in zooplankton abundance in the north-east Atlantic, the North Sea, and in freshwater UK lakes are investigated by means of the Continuous Plankton Recorder survey and the Windermere and Esthwaite lakes data. Inter-annual variability of plankton abundance in these data sets show...
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fthighwire:oai:open-archive.highwire.org:icesjms:55/4/644 2023-05-15T15:48:00+02:00 Long-term changes in zooplankton and the climate of the North Atlantic Planque, Benjamin Taylor, Arnold H. 1998-08-01 00:00:00.0 text/html http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/55/4/644 https://doi.org/10.1006/jmsc.1998.0390 en eng Oxford University Press http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/55/4/644 http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmsc.1998.0390 Copyright (C) 1998, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea/Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer Articles TEXT 1998 fthighwire https://doi.org/10.1006/jmsc.1998.0390 2013-05-27T06:02:13Z Long-term variations in zooplankton abundance in the north-east Atlantic, the North Sea, and in freshwater UK lakes are investigated by means of the Continuous Plankton Recorder survey and the Windermere and Esthwaite lakes data. Inter-annual variability of plankton abundance in these data sets shows strong correlation with two modes of climatic variability in the North Atlantic: the latitudinal shifts of the north wall of the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Oscillation. Detailed analyses reveal that the connection between environmental forcing and plankton response depends on various mechanisms, i.e., timing and intensity of the spring phytoplankton bloom resulting from changes in stratification levels, changes in temperature, and, in the case of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus , advection of the population into the North Sea at the end of the winter season. Future attempts to predict changes in marine ecosystems on the basis of climate scenarios will require focusing major effort on biological–physical modelling and large-scale plankton population ecology. The maintenance of long-term monitoring programmes is also essential to determine whether the climate–plankton connections observed during several decades will persist in the future or will be overruled by other mechanisms and principally human-induced perturbations. Text Calanus finmarchicus North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation North East Atlantic HighWire Press (Stanford University) ICES Journal of Marine Science 55 4 644 654 |
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Long-term variations in zooplankton abundance in the north-east Atlantic, the North Sea, and in freshwater UK lakes are investigated by means of the Continuous Plankton Recorder survey and the Windermere and Esthwaite lakes data. Inter-annual variability of plankton abundance in these data sets shows strong correlation with two modes of climatic variability in the North Atlantic: the latitudinal shifts of the north wall of the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Oscillation. Detailed analyses reveal that the connection between environmental forcing and plankton response depends on various mechanisms, i.e., timing and intensity of the spring phytoplankton bloom resulting from changes in stratification levels, changes in temperature, and, in the case of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus , advection of the population into the North Sea at the end of the winter season. Future attempts to predict changes in marine ecosystems on the basis of climate scenarios will require focusing major effort on biological–physical modelling and large-scale plankton population ecology. The maintenance of long-term monitoring programmes is also essential to determine whether the climate–plankton connections observed during several decades will persist in the future or will be overruled by other mechanisms and principally human-induced perturbations. |
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Long-term changes in zooplankton and the climate of the North Atlantic |
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Long-term changes in zooplankton and the climate of the North Atlantic |
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