The Baltic Sea spring phytoplankton bloom in a changing climate: an experimen…

Abstract The response of the Baltic Sea spring bloom was studied in mesocosm experiments, where temperatures were elevated up to 6C above the present-day sea surface temperature of the spring bloom season. Four of the seven experiments were carried out at different light levels (32–202 Wh m-2 at the start of the experiments) in the different experimental years. In one further experiment,…