Over the last decades, global warming has been accompanied by an increase in the taxonomic biodiversity of phytoplankton and zooplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean and a reduction in the average size of these organisms. These results have been obtained by a researcher from the Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences (CNRS/Université Lille 1/Université du Littoral-Cote d'Opale, Wimereux) in collaboration with the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (Plymouth) and the Laboratoire d'Océanologie de Villefranche (CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie)...

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