Biogeographical patterns and environmental controls of phytoplankton communities from contrasting hydrographical zones of the Labrador Sea

• Published in: Progress in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Fragoso, Glaucia M., Poulton, Alex M., Yashayaev, Igor M., Head, Erica J.H., Stinchcombe, Mark C., Purdie, Duncan A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Labrador Shelf; Labrador Sea; Phytoplankton; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/512995/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/512995/1/Fragoso%20revised%2BFig%2BTable%2017dec2015.docx.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2015.12.007

The Labrador Sea is an important oceanic sink for atmospheric CO2 because of intensive convective mixing during winter and extensive phytoplankton blooms that occur during spring and summer. Therefore, a broad-scale investigation of the responses of phytoplankton community composition to environment...