Environmental forcing of phytoplankton community structure and function in the Canadian High Arctic: contrasting oligotrophic and eutrophic regions.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Ardyna, Mathieu; Gosselin, Michel; Michel, Christine; Tremblay, Jean-Éric; Poulin, Michel
- Source
- Marine Ecology Progress Series; 12/5/2011, Vol. 442, p37-57, 21p
- Subject
- PHYTOPLANKTON
ENVIRONMENTAL policy
HOMOSCEDASTICITY
PRIMARY productivity (Biology)
CANONICAL correlation (Statistics)
PROTISTA
- Language
- ISSN
- 01718630
The article presents a study on the phytoplankton dynamics and its environmental control throughout the Canadian High Arctic (CHA). The researchers calculated the daily incident downwelling irradiance at every station and tested all the biological and environmental variables for homoscedasticity and normality of distribution before the statistical analyses. They also performed a redundancy analysis (RDA) to assess interactions between biological and environmental variables and major taxonomic groups of protists.