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Titre :	Long-term Changes and Controlling Factors of Phytoplankton Community in the Gulf of Riga (Baltic Sea)
Auteurs :	Iveta Jurgensone, Auteur ; Jacob Carstensen, Auteur ; Anda Ikauniece, Auteur ; Baiba Kalveka, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Estuaries and Coasts (34(6) NOV 2011)
Article en page(s) :	1205-1219
Résumé :	Trends in phytoplankton monitoring data (1976-2008) from the Gulf of Riga were investigated and linked to environmental factors. Annual means of spring phytoplankton biomass correlated to phosphorus input from land and shifts between diatoms and dinoflagellates were attributed to potential Si limitation and time of sampling relative to the spring phytoplankton succession. The summer phytoplankton biomass, which more than doubled over the study period, was related to the abundance of summer copepods that similarly declined. Cyanobacterial blooms proliferated in summer and the proportion of diatoms similarly declined when the winter-spring inorganic N/P ratio was low. The chlorophyte proportion in summer increased over the study period, and this was linked to increasing temperatures favoring their higher growth rates. The dinoflagellate proportion appeared to decrease with temperatures above a threshold of 15.5 degrees C. Although nutrient inputs and their ratios are important factors for the phytoplankton community, this study suggests that climate change and overfishing could be equally important.

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