Long-term responses of North Atlantic calcifying plankton to climate change

Gregory Beaugrand (), Abigail McQuatters-Gollop, Martin Edwards and Eric Goberville
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Gregory Beaugrand: CNRS, Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences UMR LOG CNRS 8187, Université des Sciences et Technologies Lille 1—BP 80
Abigail McQuatters-Gollop: Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, The Laboratory
Martin Edwards: Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, The Laboratory
Eric Goberville: CNRS, Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences UMR LOG CNRS 8187, Université des Sciences et Technologies Lille 1—BP 80

Nature Climate Change, 2013, vol. 3, issue 3, 263-267

Abstract: Climate change is threatening marine biodiversity in two ways—temperature increases and acidification. This study demonstrates that from 1960 to 2009 North Atlantic calcifying plankton primarily responded to temperature changes. Plankton communities showed an abrupt shift circa 1996, a time of a substantial temperature increase, and some taxa exhibited a poleward movement in agreement with expected biogeographical changes under ocean warming. Although acidification may become a serious threat to marine calcifiers, over the study period the primary driver of spatial distribution was ocean temperature.

Date: 2013
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