Coccolithophores and the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey
Hays, G.C., Warner, A.J., John, A.W.G., Harbour, D.S. and Holligan, P.M. 1995, Coccolithophores and the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 503-506, doi: 10.1017/S0025315400018361.
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Volume number
75
Issue number
2
Start page
503
End page
506
Total pages
4
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
Cambridge, England
Publication date
1995-05
ISSN
0025-3154 1469-7769
Summary
Samples historically collected and analysed by the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey were used to describe the distribution of coccolithophores (class Prymnesiophyceae) in the north-east Atlantic and the North Sea. In the routine CPR analysis, members of this group are simply identified as ‘coccolithophores’ and not to any further taxonomic level. From this analysis, the 200-m depth contour marked a point of distinct transition between high coccolithophore occurrence (off the shelf) and low coccolithophore occurrence (on the shelf). Thirty-three CPR samples that had been collected between 1979–1992, were re-examined and the coccolithophores identified to a more detailed taxonomic level. Among the species identified was the bloom-forming coccolithophore, Emiliania huxleyi. Thus archived CPR samples could potentially be re-analysed to assess regional, seasonal and decadal changes in the occurrence of this species.
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