Zooplankton and the North Atlantic Oscillation: A basin-scale analysis

被引:57
作者
Piontkovski, Sergey A. [1 ]
O'Brien, Todd D.
Umani, Serena F.
Krupa, Elena G.
Stuge, Tamara S.
Balymbetov, Kyanish S.
Grishaeva, Olga V.
Kasymov, Abdul G.
机构
[1] Inst Biol So Seas, UA-99011 Crimea, Ukraine
[2] SUNY Stony Brook, Marine Sci Res Ctr, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[3] NOAA, Natl Marine Fisheries Serv, Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA
[4] Univ Trieste, Lab Biol Marina, I-34010 Trieste, Italy
[5] Inst Zool, Alma Ata 480060, Kazakhstan
[6] Inst Fishery, Alma Ata 480060, Kazakhstan
[7] Inst Zool, Caspian Biol Stn, Baku 370073, Azerbaijan
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1093/plankt/fbl037
中图分类号
Q17 [水生生物学];
学科分类号
071004 ;
摘要
This study examines multiple, long-term zooplankton time series across the Atlantic region and its inland seas. Across a broad range of geographic regions and ecological environments, the impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) on interannual changes in the zooplankton populations was evident. Across the mid-Atlantic, a correlation between the NAO and zooplankton abundance was present and remained positive from the northwestern Atlantic through the enclosed seas of the far eastern Atlantic. Following high NAO years, these regions experienced higher total zooplankton abundance or biomass. Following low NAO years, this trend was reversed. A time lag in the zooplankton response to the NAO was also evident, influenced more by the scale of the water basin than by latitudinal or longitudinal location. For some regions, the correlation between zooplankton and the NAO was higher when the NAO was substituted with its sub-components: the Azores High (AH) and the Icelandic Low (IL) atmospheric pressure systems. This suggests that decomposition of the NAO into its components might enhance the sensitivity of the analysis of biological time series with regard to climate change.
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页码:1039 / 1046
页数:8
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