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Zooplankton-phytoplankton biomass and diversity relationships in the Great Lakes — Europe PMC PMID:37883482

Source: Europe PMC (en)
Original: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/37883482
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292988
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@misc{dceb7ee138fa5c,
  title = {Zooplankton-phytoplankton biomass and diversity relationships in the Great Lakes — Europe PMC PMID:37883482},
  howpublished = {Europe PMC (en)},
  url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/37883482},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_eb7ee138fa5c; sha256 73521ca7dc762672bb5f9d9f8b7770406104a71451e294687aa5a8328f3e707d},
  year = {2026}
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Quantifying the relationship between phytoplankton and zooplankton may offer insight into zooplankton sensitivity to shifting phytoplankton assemblages and the potential impacts of producer-consumer decoupling on the rest of the food web. We analyzed 18 years (2001-2018) of paired phytoplankton and zooplankton samples collected as part of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Great Lakes Biology Monitoring Program to examine both the long-term and seasonal relationships between zooplankton and phytoplankton across all five Laurentian Great Lakes. We also analyzed effects of phytoplankton diversity on zooplankton biomass, diversity, and predator-prey (zooplanktivore/grazer) ratios. Across the Great Lakes, there was a weak positive correlation between total algal biovolume and zooplankton biomass in both spring and summer. The relationship was weaker and not consistently positive within individual lakes. These trends were consistent over time, providing no evidence of increasing decoupling over the study period. Zooplankton biomass was weakly negatively correlated with algal diversity across lakes, whereas zooplankton diversity was unaffected. These relationships did not change when we considered only the edible phytoplankton fraction, possibly due to the high correlation between total and edible phytoplankton biovolume in most of these lakes. Lack of strong coupling between these producer and consumer assemblages may be related to lagging responses by the consumers, top-down effects from higher-level consumers, or other confounding factors. These results underscore the difficulty in predicting higher trophic level responses, including zooplankton, from changes in phytoplankton assemblages.

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Pubblicazione: PloS one, 2023 (prima pubblicazione 2023-10-26).
Identificativi: PMID 37883482 · PMCID PMC10602272 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0292988.
Descrittori MeSH principali: Zooplankton; Phytoplankton.
Pagina: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/37883482 — https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292988. Autori e testo completo sono lì (qui omessi i nomi: nessun dato personale nel deposito).
Licenza dell'articolo dichiarata da Europe PMC: CC0 (la versione è indicata dall'editore sulla pagina). Abstract riportato senza modifiche al contenuto, con attribuzione; deposito marcato CC0.
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