Population trends (IMAGE)

University of Groningen

Population trends

Caption

The weighted vote count as the percentage of each trend type in all ecosystem components together (top row) and separately (for the groups specified on the left axis) is weighted by the number of years with observations. Numbers of trends and species per organism group: zooplankton (56 trends, 14 species), plants (205 trends, 33 species), phytoplankton (1111 trends, 161 species), macrozoobenthos (938, 96 species), fish (382 trends, 40 species), and birds (350 trends, 57 species). The organism group of “Plants” includes salt marsh plants and seagrasses. 

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University of Groningen/Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

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