Approach for supporting food web assessments with multi-decadal phytoplankton community analyses –case Baltic Sea

Approach for supporting food web assessments with multi-decadal phytoplankton community analyses –case Baltic Sea

Combining the existing knowledge on links between functional characteristics of phytoplankton taxa and food web functioning with the methods from long-term data analysis, we present an approach for using phytoplankton monitoring data to draw conclusions on potential effects of phytoplankton taxonomi...

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Main Authors: Sirpa Lehtinen, Sanna Suikkanen, Heidi Hällfors, Pirkko Kauppila, Maiju Lehtiniemi, Jarno Tuimala, Laura Uusitalo, Harri Kuosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
environmental assessment
food web
long-term monitoring
Marine Strategy Framework Directive
Phytoplankton community composition
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmars.2016.00220/full

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