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Six decades of data on North Atlantic phytoplankton reveal that their biomass has decreased up to 2% annually across most of the Atlantic Ocean, with potentially widespread implications for the wider food web under climate change

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Large, regionally variable shifts in diatom and dinoflagellate biomass in the North Atlantic over six decades

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Six decades of data on North Atlantic phytoplankton reveal that their biomass has decreased up to 2% annually across most of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Six decades of data on North Atlantic phytoplankton reveal that their biomass has decreased up to 2% annually across most of the Atlantic Ocean, with potentially widespread implications for the wider food web under climate change

Article URL: https://plos.io/4kq8QEt

Article title: Large, regionally variable shifts in diatom and dinoflagellate biomass in the North Atlantic over six decades

Author countries: Canada

Funding: This work was supported by grants from the Simons Foundation (549935 to AJI, 549937 and 986772 to ZVF), the Ocean Frontier Institute (NWABCP to AJI and ZVF), and Discovery grant awards from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (AJI, ZVF). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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