The decline in plankton abundance in the North East Atlantic over the past six decades should serve as a red flag to policy makers about the need to protect some of the planet's most critical forms of life, a new study has warned.
This included data collected by the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey, which has been operating since 1931 and represents the most geographically extensive marine monitoring program in the world. The findings are published in the journal.
Across the open oceans of the North East Atlantic, where temperatures have increased gradually during the past six decades, most of the lifeforms assessed showed a decrease in abundance. By contrast, similar populations in the North Sea—which has undergone major warming, changes in nutrients, and disruption from fisheries—have remained far more stable. Some plankton populations there, and particular in more coastal regions, have even increased in abundance.
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