Attenuation of climatic signals limits prediction of phytoplankton blooms in a temperate shelf sea
William Ross Hunter, Eugene O’Kane, Claire Smyth, Daniel McClements, M. W. Service, Adam Mellor
The paper shows weak climate-bloom relationships in a temperate shelf sea due to ecological filtering and biological constraints on nutrient-to-biomass translation.
bioRxiv · Oct 29, 2026 · PreprintEcology