Impact of El Niño Variability on Oceanic Phytoplankton

Oceanic phytoplankton respond rapidly to a complex spectrum of climate-driven perturbations, confounding attempts to isolate the principal causes of observed changes. A dominant mode of variability in the Earth-climate system is that generated by the El Niño phenomenon. Marked variations are observe...

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Main Authors: Marie-Fanny Racault, Shubha Sathyendranath, Robert J. W. Brewin, Dionysios E. Raitsos, Thomas Jackson, Trevor Platt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00133/full