Phaeocystis colony distribution in the North Atlantic Ocean since 1948, and interpretation of long-term changes in the Phaeocystis hotspot in the North Sea

• Published in: Biogeochemistry
• Main Authors: Gieskes, WWC, Leterme, SSC, Peletier, H, Edwards, M, Reid, PC
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Dover; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/2186/; http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/2186/1/Gieskes_et_al_2007.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-007-9082-6

Monitoring of Phaeocystis since 1948 during the Continuous Plankton Recorder survey indicates that over the last 5.5 decades the distribution of its colonies in the North Atlantic Ocean was not restricted to neritic waters: occurrence was also recorded in the open Atlantic regions sampled, most freq...