Reorganization of North Atlantic Marine Copepod Biodiversity and Climate
Abstract
We provide evidence of large-scale changes in the biogeography of calanoid copepod crustaceans in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean and European shelf seas. We demonstrate that strong biogeographical shifts in all copepod assemblages have occurred with a northward extension of more than 10 degrees latitude of warm-water species associated with a decrease in the number of colder-water species. These biogeographical shifts are in agreement with recent changes in the spatial distribution and phenology detected for many taxonomic groups in terrestrial European ecosystems and are related to both the increasing trend in Northern Hemisphere temperature and the North Atlantic Oscillation.
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Several researchers have used copepods to characterize oceanographic conditions and water masses because their short life cycles allow them to respond to seasonal changes.
“In recent decades, several researchers have used copepods to characterize oceanographic conditions and water masses (Björnberg, 1981;Beaugrand et al., 2002;Costello et al., 2006;McKinnon et al., 2008) because their short life cycles allow them to respond to seasonal changes (Hooff and Peterson, 2006;McKinnon et al., 2008).”
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“In recent decades, several researchers have used copepods to characterize oceanographic conditions and water masses (Björnberg, 1981; Beaugrand et al., 2002; Costello et al., 2006; McKinnon et al., 2008) because their short life cycles allow them to respond to seasonal changes (Hooff and Peterson,…”
Background
- Authors
- Beaugrand, G., Reid, P. C., Ibañez, F., Lindley, J. A., & Edwards, M.
- Affiliations
- Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, The Laboratory Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UK.
- Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey (GB)
- Observatoire Océanologique, Laboratoire d'Océanologie Biologique et Ecologie du Plancton Marin, BP 28 06230 Villefranche sur Mer, France.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2002-05-31
- Volume
- 296
- Issue
- 5573
- Pages
- 1692-1694
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2015762135
- Cited by
- 1,213
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 31.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Marine and fisheries research
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Keywords
- Calanoida, North Atlantic, latitudinal range shift, warm-water species, cold-water species, climate change, North Atlantic Oscillation, marine biodiversity
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Atlantic Ocean, Climate, Crustacea, Geography, Seasons, Seawater, Temperature, Zooplankton, Ecosystem, Principal Component Analysis
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