CEMP Guidelines: Phytoplankton monitoring

Abstract

This document describes phytoplankton species composition monitoring guidelines for the OSPAR area. “Phytoplankton” is here used throughout as a simple umbrella term to encompass prokaryotes as well as eukaryotes, but is limited to protists, whatever their size and trophic mode (i.e. auto-mixo or heterotroph). Micrometazoa <200 um and also larger metazoans are thus excluded from this definition. The scope of the guidelines includes eutrophication, biodiversity, invasive species, harmful algal blooms and climate change. This document replaces the document ‘JAMP Eutrophication Monitoring Guidelines: Phytoplankton Species Composition’, adopted 1997 in Brussels. (Ref. No.: Agreement 1997-05).