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 | Changes in marine dinoflagellate and diatom abundance under climate change Imagine looking at your garden one morning and finding that the grass had suddenly been replaced by bushes. Far fetched ? You might think so, but changes of this magnitude have recently been reported in the biology of the North Atlantic with a dramatic switch in the prevalence of two groups of microscopic planktonic plants that lie at the base of the food chain.... |
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Welcome to GACS
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Marine Phytoplankton (left) and Zooplankton
(right)
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GACS is short for the Global Alliance of Continuous
Plankton Recorder Surveys, which is an international scientific
partnership that was established in September 2011.
The goal of GACS is "to understand changes in plankton
biodiversity at ocean basin scales through a global network of CPR
surveys".
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The GACS Partners in Plymouth, UK at the first GACS
Workshop, 20-21 September 2011.
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GACS has a number of specific aims, which include:
- to develop a global Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR)
database
- to produce a regular Ecological Status Report for global
plankton biodiversity
- to ensure that common standards and methodologies are
maintained
- to provide an interface for plankton biodiversity with other
global ocean observation programmes
- to set up and maintain a website for publicity and data
access
- to facilitate new CPR surveys and develop capacity building
procedures
- to facilitate secondments of CPR scientists between GACS
institutions.
To learn more about GACS, the Continuous Plankton Recorder and
its Partners, please, check out the About GACS pages, and if you have an enquiry
or want to get in touch with GACS, please, see the Contact Us
page.
This website is a work in progress and will be updated
periodically.
Our partner organisations and stakeholders are listed below,
click on a logo to visit their respective internet pages.