Plankton biogeography in the North Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas: Species assemblages and environmental signatures.

ABSTRACT: Plankton biodiversity is a key component of marine pelagic ecosystems. They are at the base of the food web, control the productivity of marine ecosystems, and provide many provisioning and regulating ecological services. It is therefore important to understand how plankton are organized in both space and time. Here, we use data of varying taxonomic resolution, collected by the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey, to map phytoplankton and zooplankton biodiversity in the North Atlantic and its adjacent seas. We then decompose biodiversity into 24 species assemblages and investigate their spatial distribution using ecological units and ecoregions recently proposed. Finally, we propose a descriptive method, which we call the environmental chromatogram, to characterize the environmental

SUBMITTER: Kleparski L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8131763 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature