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SUBMITTER: Lindley JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3001376 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lindley J A JA Beaugrand G G Luczak C C Dewarumez J-M JM Kirby R R RR
Biology letters 20100616 6
A long-term time series of plankton and benthic records in the North Sea indicates an increase in decapods and a decline in their prey species that include bivalves and flatfish recruits. Here, we show that in the southern North Sea the proportion of decapods to bivalves doubled following a temperature-driven, abrupt ecosystem shift during the 1980s. Analysis of decapod larvae in the plankton reveals a greater presence and spatial extent of warm-water species where the increase in decapods is gr ...[more]