posted on 2024-01-22, 11:22authored byWilliam K. W. Li, Xosé Anxelu G. Morán, Todd D. O’Brien
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The ecological links between the physical environment of the ocean and the mid to upper trophic levels of pelagic foodwebs are the lower trophic levels comprising microbial primary producers (phytoplankton) and microbial secondary producers (bacterioplankton, heterotrophic protists). In the North Atlantic Ocean, standardized annual average anomalies of oceanic hydrography (WGOH) and of mesozooplankton (WGZE) derived from time‐series observations at monitoring sites located across the entire basin provide long‐term trends suitable for discerning climate variability and change. Here we (Working Group on Phytoplankton and Microbial Ecology, WGPME) describe work in progress aimed at establishing contemporaneous trends at similar scales of space and time for phytoplankton and other microbial plankton (and associated variables such as inorganic nutrients) with a view towards understanding climatic and anthropogenic signal propagation from the abiotic environment to higher trophic levels.
History
Symposia
2011 Annual Science Conference, Gdańsk, Poland
Session
Theme Session B: Ecological response of phytoplankton and other microbes to global change processes in ocean basins, shelf seas, and coastal zones
Abstract reference
B:02
Recommended citation
[Authors]. 2011. Towards an ecological status report for phytoplankton and microbialplankton in the North Atlantic. 2011 Annual Science Conference, Gdánsk, Poland. CM 2011/B:02. https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.25028720