Progressive changes in the Western English Channel foster a reorganization in the plankton food web

• Published in: Progress in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Reygondeau, Gabriel, Molinero, Juan Carlos, Coombs, Steve, Mackenzie, Brian, Bonnet, Delphine
• Other Authors: Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR), MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation (UMR MARBEC), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: abundance; climate-change; dynamics; ecosystems; global ocean; north-sea; regime shifts; sardine sardina-pilchardus; station l4; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; [SDV.EE.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology; environment/Ecosystems; Molinero; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal.umontpellier.fr/hal-01922257; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2015.04.025

International audience Growing evidence has shown a profound modification of plankton communities of the North East Atlantic and adjacent seas over the past decades. This drastic change has been attributed to a modification of the environmental conditions that regulate the dynamics and the spatial d...