Long-Term Trends in Calcifying Plankton and pH in the North Sea
Relationships between six calcifying plankton groups and pH are explored in a highly biologically productive and data-rich area of the central North Sea using time-series datasets. The long-term trends show that abundances of foraminiferans, coccolithophores, and echinoderm larvae have risen over th...
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ftunivplympearl:oai:pearl.plymouth.ac.uk:10026.1/1465 2024-05-19T07:46:37+00:00 Long-Term Trends in Calcifying Plankton and pH in the North Sea Beare, D McQuatters-Gollop, A van der Hammen, T Machiels, M Jiau Teoh, S Hall-Spencer, JM 2013-05-01 e61175-e61175 Electronic-Print application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1465 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061175 en eng Public Library of Science (PLoS) United States ISSN:1932-6203 E-ISSN:1932-6203 1932-6203 ARTN e61175 http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1465 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061175 Not known Analysis of Variance Animals Biomass Bivalvia Echinodermata Hydrogen-Ion Concentration Larva Models Biological North Sea Regression Analysis Seasons Seawater Zooplankton journal-article Article 2013 ftunivplympearl https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061175 2024-05-01T00:07:16Z Relationships between six calcifying plankton groups and pH are explored in a highly biologically productive and data-rich area of the central North Sea using time-series datasets. The long-term trends show that abundances of foraminiferans, coccolithophores, and echinoderm larvae have risen over the last few decades while the abundances of bivalves and pteropods have declined. Despite good coverage of pH data for the study area there is uncertainty over the quality of this historical dataset; pH appears to have been declining since the mid 1990s but there was no statistical connection between the abundance of the calcifying plankton and the pH trends. If there are any effects of pH on calcifying plankton in the North Sea they appear to be masked by the combined effects of other climatic (e.g. temperature), chemical (nutrient concentrations) and biotic (predation) drivers. Certain calcified plankton have proliferated in the central North Sea, and are tolerant of changes in pH that have occurred since the 1950s but bivalve larvae and pteropods have declined. An improved monitoring programme is required as ocean acidification may be occurring at a rate that will exceed the environmental niches of numerous planktonic taxa, testing their capacities for acclimation and genetic adaptation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification PEARL (Plymouth Electronic Archiv & ResearchLibrary, Plymouth University) PLoS ONE 8 5 e61175 |
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Analysis of Variance Animals Biomass Bivalvia Echinodermata Hydrogen-Ion Concentration Larva Models Biological North Sea Regression Analysis Seasons Seawater Zooplankton Beare, D McQuatters-Gollop, A van der Hammen, T Machiels, M Jiau Teoh, S Hall-Spencer, JM Long-Term Trends in Calcifying Plankton and pH in the North Sea |
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Relationships between six calcifying plankton groups and pH are explored in a highly biologically productive and data-rich area of the central North Sea using time-series datasets. The long-term trends show that abundances of foraminiferans, coccolithophores, and echinoderm larvae have risen over the last few decades while the abundances of bivalves and pteropods have declined. Despite good coverage of pH data for the study area there is uncertainty over the quality of this historical dataset; pH appears to have been declining since the mid 1990s but there was no statistical connection between the abundance of the calcifying plankton and the pH trends. If there are any effects of pH on calcifying plankton in the North Sea they appear to be masked by the combined effects of other climatic (e.g. temperature), chemical (nutrient concentrations) and biotic (predation) drivers. Certain calcified plankton have proliferated in the central North Sea, and are tolerant of changes in pH that have occurred since the 1950s but bivalve larvae and pteropods have declined. An improved monitoring programme is required as ocean acidification may be occurring at a rate that will exceed the environmental niches of numerous planktonic taxa, testing their capacities for acclimation and genetic adaptation. |
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Beare, D McQuatters-Gollop, A van der Hammen, T Machiels, M Jiau Teoh, S Hall-Spencer, JM |
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Beare, D McQuatters-Gollop, A van der Hammen, T Machiels, M Jiau Teoh, S Hall-Spencer, JM |
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Long-Term Trends in Calcifying Plankton and pH in the North Sea |
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Long-Term Trends in Calcifying Plankton and pH in the North Sea |
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Long-Term Trends in Calcifying Plankton and pH in the North Sea |
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Long-Term Trends in Calcifying Plankton and pH in the North Sea |
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Long-Term Trends in Calcifying Plankton and pH in the North Sea |
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long-term trends in calcifying plankton and ph in the north sea |
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