Plankton Status Report (PSR)
The ICES Science Plan adopts an ecosystem approach to management that is built on scientific capacity to understand ecosystem functioning. To understand, one should first know; to know, one should first observe. To understand well and to know much, one should observe far and wide and for long and always. This, in a manner of speaking, is the rationale for multidecadal oceanic ecological datasets and their application in marine ecology and biogeochemistry as well as in marine policy and management.
In WGPME's first full report (CRR-313, available below), the ecological status of phytoplankton and microbial plankton of the North Atlantic and adjacent seas is presented by reference to seven geographical regions containing 61 monitoring locations, and to 40 standard areas of the Continuous Plankton Recorder survey. Coverage stretches from the subpolar waters of the Labrador Sea to the subtropical waters of southwestern Iberia, and extends into the Mediterranean Sea.
The 2009/2010 Status Report
( smaller file PDF version: 20 MB )
( high-resolution PDF version: 60 MB )
Release September of 2013
ATTENTION: You should only "right-click-save-as" either of the large report PDFs linked above and save it to your computer before attempting to open it. (You may get an error message and/or garbage results if you open directly it in your browser window.) The high-resolution version will have crisper graphics.
Do you have or know of zooplankton or phytoplankton time series from the North Atlantic or anywhere else in the world? Please contact Todd.OBrien@copepodproject.org for information on how these data could be included in future WGZE (zooplankton), WGPME (phytoplankton and microbial plankton), or global SCOR zooplankton or phytoplankton time series studies.
2026-07-01
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