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Nature 444, 695-696 (7 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/444695a; Published online 6 December 2006
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Oceanography: Plankton in a warmer world
Scott C. Doney1
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Satellite data show that phytoplankton biomass and growth generally decline as the oceans' surface waters warm up. Is this trend, seen over the past decade, a harbinger of the future for marine ecosystems?
Oranges in Florida, wildfires in Indonesia, plankton in the North Pacific — what links these seemingly disparate items is that they are all affected by year-to-year fluctuations in global-scale climate. On page 752 of this issue, Behrenfeld et al.1 describe how such fluctuations, especially in temperature, are connected to the productivity of phytoplankton in the world's oceans.
- Scott C. Doney is in the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA.
Email: sdoney@whoi.edu
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