Researchers from the University of Plymouth have led the production of a new report highlighting the impact of climate change on marine plankton and pelagic habitats in UK waters.
Published by the Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP), the report discusses the latest evidence showing major large-scale shifts already happening in plankton communities.
It also demonstrates how these effects are being amplified by human activities, including commercial fishing and the development of offshore energy infrastructure, as well as run-off from agriculture and other land-based industries.
The report's authors also say there are marked differences across areas of the coastal and marine environment, with poor monitoring in some areas leading to a lack of consensus in some of the observed trends and predictions. But overall, they expect to see the effects observed currently to impact the entire marine ecosystem, which will likely affect food web efficiency and productivity into the future.
The new report was authored by a team including
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