Global phytoplankton decline over the past century

By D. Boyce, M. Lewis, Boris Worm. Nature, 2010

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Climate Change and Global Food Systems: Potential Impacts on Food Security and Undernutrition. (2017, background): “Climate change is predicted to warm, deoxygenate, and acidify the oceans (58, 122), thereby altering net primary production (21, 86) and generally displacing habitats poleward (35, 57).”
Ecological niches of open ocean phytoplankton taxa (2015, background): “The high importance of MLD for phytoplankton occurrence is established in various other contexts such as seasonal succession on the local scale (e.g., Margalef 1978) or productivity on the global scale (e.g., Boyce et al. 2010).”
The effects of changing climate on microzooplankton grazing and community structure: drivers, predictions and knowledge gaps (2013, background): “Recent analyses indicating a global decline in phytoplankton have generated attention and also some controversy (Boyce et al., 2010; Mackas, 2011; McQuatters-Gollop et al., 2011).”
Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change (2019, neutral): “Some studies indicate that overall global oceanic phyto-plankton density has decreased in the past century 39 , but these conclusions have been questioned because of the limited availability of long-term phytoplankton data, methodological differences in data generation and the large annual and…”
Assessing the trophic position and ecological role of squids in marine ecosystems by means of food-web models (2013, background): “…is reduced, however (which seems to be occurring at regional levels as climate change results in stronger stratification and weaker upwellings) (Boyce et al., 2010; Polovina et al., 2008), then this would negatively impact squid populations and their predators, such as large commercial fishes…”
The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people (2016, background): “In a global study of phytoplankton since 1899, an ~1% decline in global median phytoplankton per year was strongly correlated with increases in sea surface temperature (120), whereas in the Antarctic Peninsula, phytoplankton increased by 66% in southern subregions and decreased by 12% in northern su”
The biological pump in a high CO 2 world (2012, background): “…and increased stratification has also been postulated from global data sets combining Secchi depths, transmissometer and satellite informa- tion (Boyce et al. 2010), indicating a negative relationship between primary production and surface temperature observed in situ during the last decade…”
Spring phenological responses of marine and freshwater plankton to changing temperature and light conditions (2012, background): “While climate-related phenological shifts toward earlier spring events are widespread across marine and freshwater habitats (Thackeray et al. 2010), there is less consensus on bloom magnitude (Adrian et al. 1999; Boyce et al. 2010; Straile 2002; Taucher and Oschlies 2011).”
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) release by phytoplankton in the contemporary and future ocean (2014, background): “Boyce et al. (2010a) concluded that global phytoplankton concentration is declining rapidly in the ocean at a rate of approximately 1% year−1 in response to warming temperatures, using pigment and Secchi depth data going back to 1899.”
Early life history and fisheries oceanography: new questions in a changing world (2014, background): “Juvenile and adult fishes generally have well-developed mechanisms for acid-base regulation and can cope with pCO2 levels much higher than those projected due to climate change (Brauner and Baker, 2009; Esbaugh et al., 2012; Heuer and Grosell, 2014).”
Physiological responses of habitat‐forming seaweeds to increasing temperatures (2016, background): “…to climate change (Smale et al. 2013; Costanza et al. 2014; Bennett et al. 2016), studying the potential impact of ocean warming on ecologically and socioeconomically important marine organisms has gathered momentum in recent years (Boyce et al. 2010; Cantin et al. 2010; Cheung et al. 2013).”