Machine learning to identify environmental drivers of phytoplankton blooms in the Southern Baltic Sea.

ABSTRACT: Phytoplankton blooms exhibit varying patterns in timing and number of peaks within ecosystems. These differences in blooming patterns are partly explained by phytoplankton:nutrient interactions and external factors such as temperature, salinity and light availability. Understanding these interactions and drivers is essential for effective bloom management and modelling as driving factors potentially differ or are shared across ecosystems on regional scales. Here, we used a 22-year data set (19 years training and 3 years validation data) containing chlorophyll, nutrients (dissolved and total), and external drivers (temperature, salinity, light) of the southern Baltic Sea coast, a European brackish shelf sea, which constituted six different phytoplankton blooming patterns. We employed genera

SUBMITTER: Berthold M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11760947 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature