The silent majority: Pico- and nanoplankton as ecosystem health indicators for marine policy

Autor: Abigail McQuatters-Gollop, Rowena F. Stern, Angus Atkinson, Mike Best, Eileen Bresnan, Veronique Creach, Michelle Devlin, Matthew Holland, Clare Ostle, Katrin Schmidt, Lawrence Sheppard, Glen Tarran, E. Malcolm S. Woodward, Paul Tett
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Ecological Indicators, Vol 159, Iss , Pp 111650- (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1470-160X
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.111650
Popis: A healthy marine ecosystem is a fully functioning system, able to supply ecosystem services whilst still maintaining resilience to human-induced environmental change. Monitoring and managing the health of resilient marine ecosystems requires indicators that can assess their biodiversity state and food web functioning. Plankton are crucial components of pelagic habitats, occupying the base of the pelagic food web. Larger plankton have long been used to monitor ecosystem productivity and biodiversity due to their identification via traditional light microscopy. In contrast, the regular monitoring of pico- and nanoplankton (
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