Limited evidence for common interannual trends in Baltic Sea summer phytoplankton biomass.

ABSTRACT: The Baltic Sea summer phytoplankton community plays an important role in biogeochemical cycling and in the transfer of energy through the food web via zooplankton. We aimed to improve the understanding of the degree to which large-scale versus local environmental dynamics regulate phytoplankton dynamics by analyzing time series at the Baltic Sea scale. We used dynamic factor analysis to study if there are common patterns of interannual variation that are shared ("common trends") among summer phytoplankton total and class-level biomass time series observed across Baltic Sea latitudinal gradients in salinity and temperature. We evaluated alternative hypotheses regarding common trends among summer phytoplankton biomass: Baltic Sea-wide common trends; common trends by geography (latitude and b

SUBMITTER: Griffiths JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7192432 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature