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Northward movement of zooplankton between 1958-2005

Northward movement of zooplankton between 1958-2005

Map (static)Published 12 Nov 2009Modified 20 Sept 2024

The northward movement of zoo-plankton spanning five decades

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1958-2005

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The warm-water species (warm-temperate pseudo oceanic species) are moving north and cold-water species (sub-arctic species) are moving north, and have greatly decreased their presence in the North Sea. In the past 45 years, a rapid (approximately 1 100 km) northward movement along the continental shelf edge has been observed. Data are based on observations from the Continuous Plankton Recorder

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