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Coincident changes in four components of the North Sea ecosystem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2001

K.F. Pearce  and
C.L.J. Frid
K.F. Pearce
Affiliation:
Dove Marine Laboratory, University of Newcastle, Cullercoats, North Shields, NE30 4PZ
C.L.J. Frid
Affiliation:
Dove Marine Laboratory, University of Newcastle, Cullercoats, North Shields, NE30 4PZ
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Abstract

An analysis of species composition of the zooplankton, macrobenthos (two stations) and demersal fish from Northumberland (north-west North Sea) are reported. The four time-series show synchronous changes in species composition. While some of these changes coincide with changes in climateological variables, others do not. The degree of synchrony implies that either all the time-series are responding to a single set of extraneous forcing factors, or that food chain links, rapidly translate the signal through all ecosystem components.

Type
Short Communication
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 79 , Issue 1 , February 1999 , pp. 183 - 185
Copyright
© 1999 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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