Phytoplankton change in the North Atlantic

A marked increase in global temperature over the last century was confirmed by the second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Here we report significant positive and negative linear trends from 1948 to 1995 in phytoplankton measured by the Continuous Plankton Recorder...

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Published in:Nature
Main Authors: Reid, PC, Edwards, M, Hunt, HG, Warner, AJ
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 1998
Subjects:
Arctic
Climate change
North Atlantic
Northeast Atlantic
Phytoplankton
Online Access:http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/1738/
http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/1738/1/reid_edwards_hunt_warner_98.pdf
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v391/n6667/full/391546a0_fs.html&content_filetype=pdf
https://doi.org/10.1038/35290
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Summary:A marked increase in global temperature over the last century was confirmed by the second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Here we report significant positive and negative linear trends from 1948 to 1995 in phytoplankton measured by the Continuous Plankton Recorder survey in the northeast Atlantic and North Sea that might reflect a response to changing climate on a timescale of decades. Spreading of unusually cold waters from the Arctic might have contributed to the decline in phytoplankton north of 59o N. Further south, phytoplankton season length and abundance seem to have increased.

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