Impacts on phytoplankton biomass and productivity in the Pacific Northwest during the warm ocean conditions of 2005

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Nov 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006georl..3322s06k&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Issue 22, CiteID L22S06

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Global Change: Climate Variability (1635, 3305, 3309, 4215, 4513), Oceanography: Biological And Chemical: Phytoplankton, Oceanography: Biological And Chemical: Photosynthesis, Oceanography: General: Descriptive And Regional Oceanography

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Delayed onset of the spring transition and upwelling-favorable winds in the Pacific Northwest during spring-summer 2005 resulted in a positive temperature anomaly and a pronounced negative anomaly in surface phytoplankton biomass (chlorophyll a) and primary productivity. Compared to time periods before and after the warm water event, total biomass was reduced by ca. 50% along a hydrographic line extending seaward from Grays Harbor, WA (47° N), with a concomitant decrease of ca. 40% in surface and depth-integrated primary productivity. Associated with these declines in biomass and productivity was a change in mean phytoplankton size, with >50% of the nearshore assemblage less than 5μm in size during the warm event, compared to <30% during more normal conditions. Unlike higher trophic levels, the phytoplankton rapidly recovered with the onset of upwelling, returning to more typical size structure, biomass, and productivity within one week of the onset of upwelling-favorable winds.

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