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Plankton

Plankton are at the base of the marine food web and generally not fished by humans. Changes in the plankton will have impacts on the rest of the marine ecosystem including on the carbon cycle, living marine resources used by humans and threatened marine species including apex predators. Climate variability significantly impacts plankton in the ocean, both the microflora (phytoplankton) and the microfauna (zooplankton), over both short and long timescales.
  Domain: Ocean
  Subdomain: Biological/Ecosystems
  Scientific Area: Biosphere
  Product:  Phytoplankton; Zooplankton

 


Global Map of Zooplankton

Global Map of Zooplankton

Figure: Global map of current zooplankton observations. Black points show CPR samples, red points indicate long term zooplankton sampling stations that could provide diversity measurements (note that this map is incomplete with regard to zooplankton monitoring stations).

Data source: https://www.cprsurvey.org/data/our-data/

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