Coastal phytoplankton blooms expand and intensify in the 21st century

Yanhui Dai, Shangbo Yang, Dan Zhao, Chuanmin Hu, Wang Xu, Donald M. Anderson, Yun Li, Xiao-Peng Song, Daniel G. Boyce, Luke Gibson, Chunmiao Zheng and Lian Feng ()
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Yanhui Dai: Southern University of Science and Technology
Shangbo Yang: Southern University of Science and Technology
Dan Zhao: Southern University of Science and Technology
Chuanmin Hu: University of South Florida
Wang Xu: Shenzhen Ecological and Environmental Monitoring Center of Guangdong Province
Donald M. Anderson: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Yun Li: University of Delaware
Xiao-Peng Song: University of Maryland
Daniel G. Boyce: Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Luke Gibson: Southern University of Science and Technology
Chunmiao Zheng: Southern University of Science and Technology
Lian Feng: Southern University of Science and Technology

Nature, 2023, vol. 615, issue 7951, 280-284

Abstract: Abstract Phytoplankton blooms in coastal oceans can be beneficial to coastal fisheries production and ecosystem function, but can also cause major environmental problems1,2—yet detailed characterizations of bloom incidence and distribution are not available worldwide. Here we map daily marine coastal algal blooms between 2003 and 2020 using global satellite observations at 1-km spatial resolution. We found that algal blooms occurred in 126 out of the 153 coastal countries examined. Globally, the spatial extent (+13.2%) and frequency (+59.2%) of blooms increased significantly (P

Date: 2023
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