Document of bibliographic reference 24951

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Bibliographic resource

Type of document

Journal article

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AS

Title

Long-term variability in the diversity of North Sea zooplankton

Abstract

Results from the Continous Plankton Recorder survey were used to study long-term changes in the zooplankton of four regularly sampled areas of the North Sea. The trends in alpha-diversity are described and analysed. Species associated with inflow of oceanic or mixed waters from the Atlantic or shelf to the west and south of Britain have increased in abundance or frequency of occurence. Meroplankton has also increased, but resident holoplankton and those associated with colder oceanic or mixed waters have declined. These changes have resulted in an increase in the species richness in the areas in the north-western North Sea. There was a period of low diversity in the late 1970s and the early 1980s in the most southerly area, furthest from the sources of inflow. The evidence for a long-term trend was stronger then relationships between diversity and either the North Atlantic Oscillation or variation in position of the Gulf Stream in the western Atlantic.

WebOfScience code

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000174475600004

Bibliographic citation

Lindley, J.A.; Batten, S.D. (2002). Long-term variability in the diversity of North Sea zooplankton. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 82(1): 31-40. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315402005155

Topic

Marine

Is peer reviewed

true