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Analyses of sea surface chlorophyll a trends and variability from 1998 to 2020 in the German Bight (North Sea)
Felipe de Luca Lopes de Amorim
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Wadden Sea Station Sylt, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Hafenstrasse 43, 25992 List, Germany
Areti Balkoni
Wadden Sea Station Sylt, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Hafenstrasse 43, 25992 List, Germany
Vera Sidorenko
Wadden Sea Station Sylt, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Hafenstrasse 43, 25992 List, Germany
Karen Helen Wiltshire
Wadden Sea Station Sylt, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Hafenstrasse 43, 25992 List, Germany
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Short summary
We studied the increasing or decreasing of chlorophyll a abundance in the German Bight. Chlorophyll a is the pigment present in algae that allows them to capture energy from the sun and indicates both the growth of the algae and the health of the environment. Most of the German Bight has decreasing chlorophyll a concentration in the analysed period. In addition, about 45 % of the changes happening in chlorophyll a were connected with changes in temperature.
We studied the increasing or decreasing of chlorophyll a abundance in the German Bight....
