Published Papers

Publications produced by CPR Survey scientists and collaborating researchers using CPR Survey data. 

CPR Survey Staff in bold.
*Associate Researchers/ Research Fellows/ PhD Students

2026 (published and submitted) 

Castant, J., Vantrepotte, V., *Reid, P. and Beaugrand, G., 2026. Major Long-term Shifts in Spatial and Annual Plankton Biodiversity Patterns in the North Atlantic Ocean. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-8252199/v1  
Pre-printed accepted March 2026 

Djeghri, N., Hélaouët et al. 2026 Going round in cycles but going somewhere: Deciphering cyclical dynamics using Ecological Trajectory Analysis. Accepted Ecological Monographs. 

Feng M, Catherine L. Johnson, Bingzhang Chen, Dafne Eerkes-Medrano, Pierre Hélaouёt, Matthew Holland, David G. Johns, Maiju Lehtiniemi, Todd D. O’Brien, Clare Ostle, Sophie Pitois, Jasmin Renz and Angus Atkinson (in prep). Warming seas drive summer declines in zooplankton biomass across the North Atlantic 

Greig, L.; Couce, E.; Thompson, M.; Engelhard, G.; Pinnegar, J.; Cooper, K.; Hélaouët, P.; Pecuchet, L.; Peck, M. and Lindegren, M. From plankton to fish: 21st-century redistribution of marine biodiversity and the changing role of rare species. Accepted in Science Advances (March) 

Holland, M.M., Bresnan, E., Edwards, M., Faith, M., Ostle, C., Stern, R., Tett, P., Widdicombe, C., Whyte, C. and McQuatters-Gollop, A., 2026. Changing Pseudo-nitzschia and Dinophysis distributions in the North Sea and Western Approaches (NE Atlantic) and their potential use in biodiversity assessments. Harmful Algae, 156, p.103113. SSN 1568-9883. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2026.103113 
Published June 2026  

Keys M, Highfield A, Chrachri A, Ostle C, Brownlee C, Wheeler GL. Dynamic changes in phycosphere carbonate chemistry reveal rapid modulation of carbon uptake in single diatom cells. Sci Adv. 2026;8646(January):1–17. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ady864  

Llope. M, T. Blenckner, P. Vasilakopoulos, N. McGinty, C.P. Lynam, P. Hélaouët, C. Möllmann, R. Frelat, J.M. Durant, L.C. Stige, & N.C. Stenseth, Stress and resilience in northern European marine ecosystems, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (8) e2527939123, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2527939123 (2026). 

McQuatters-Gollop, A., Shravan Raghu, Angus Atkinson, Mike Best, Eileen Bresnan, Michelle Devlin, Matthew Faith, Matt Holland, David G. Johns, Clare Ostle, James Scott, Rowena Stern, Paul Tett (in prep) In your impact era: a simple method to evaluate the policy impact of scientific research.  

McQuattersGollop, A., Holland, M.M., Artigas, L.F., Louchart, A.P., Atkinson, A., Aubert, A., Best, M., Blauw, A., Bresnan, E., Devlin, M., Enserink, L., Faith, M., Goberville, E., Heyden, B., Jakobsen, H., Johansen, M., Johns, D.G., Ostle, C., Rombouts, I., Schilder, J., Tett, P. and Vincent, D. (Submitted) Integrating indicators of plankton abundance and diversity to assess the state of pelagic habitats in the Northeast Atlantic. Ecological Indicators. 

Ostle, C., Angus Atkinson, Matthew P. Faith, Matthew M. Holland, David G. Johns, Abigail McQuatters-Gollop, Rebecca Millington, *Loïck Kléparski (submitted) Long-term declines in North Atlantic copepod biomass and cold-water assemblages under ocean warming. Phil. Trans. B. 

Pollet-Calderini, C., Kirby, R., Castant, J. Leroy, M., Robert, D. and Beaugrand, G. Climate-induced shifts in cod spawning phenology across the North Atlantic. Sci Rep 16, 13982 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-44116-0 
Published March 2026 

Scott, J., Johns, D.G., Pitois, S., Ostle, C., Ribeiro, J., Devlin, M. and Best, M. (submitted) Harmonising two continuous plankton samplers 100 years apart: the CPR and Pi-10.  

Tyldesley, E., Banas, N., Wakelin, S.L., Speirs, D., Krivtsov, V., Jardine, J., Daunt, F., Johns, D.G., Searle, K., Bull, C. and Heath, M., (submitted). Projected declines in zooplankton energy supporting Northeast Atlantic ecosystems. Communications Earth and Environment.  

Reports 

Gemma Brice : A 1920's Unlikely Hero for Cutting-Edge Marine Research | CPR Survey  
Featured in the January edition of The Marine Biologist 

2025 (published and submitted) 

Andres, M., Rossby, T., Firing, E., Flagg, C., Bates, N.R., Hummon, J., Pierrot, D., Noyes, T.J., Enright, M.P., O’Brien, J.K., Hudak, R., Dong, S., Melrose, D.C., Johns, D.G. and Gregory, L. (2025) Monitoring Impacts of the Gulf Stream and its Rings on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of the Middle Atlantic Bight Shelf and Slope from the CMV Oleander. Oceanography https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2025e108

Castant, J., Vantrepotte, V., Thibault, H., and Beaugrand, G. 2025. Long-term changes in depth distribution and phenology of four North Atlantic plankton species. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 771:33-53 (2025) doi.org/10.3354/meps14945 

Dees, P., Fröb, F., Arellano-Nava, B., Johns, D. G., and Heinze, C. (submitted) A novel multispecies approach for the detection of ecosystem regime shifts – a case study in the North Sea, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-470, 2025. 

Faith MP, Rees E, Atkinson A, M. Best, E. Bresnan, M. Devlin, M. Holland, H. Niner, C. Ostle, P. Tett, A. Mcquatters-gollop. An assessment model for linking changes in pelagic habitat state to impacts on human wellbeing. Mar Policy. 2025;182(July). doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106863 

Han, G., Quartly, G.D., Wang, H., Yang, J. and Chen, G. 2025. Latitudinal transitions of eddy-affected zooplankton abundance in the mid-latitude North Atlantic. Deep Sea Res. Part I: Oceanographic Res. Papers. 226, Dec 2025, 104605 doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2025.104605 

Herbig, J., Fisher, J., Niemi, A., Bouchard, C. and Geoffroy, M. 2025. Biophysical influences and Appendicularia abundance differentiate zooplankton and age-0 fish communities spanning subarctic and Arctic bioregions Mar Ecol Prog Ser 775:17-39 (2025) https://doi.org/10.3354/meps15028 

Holland, M., Artigas, L.F., Atkinson, A., Best, M., Bresnan, E., Devlin, M., Eerkes-Medrano, D., Johansen, M., Johns, D.G, Machairopoulou, M., Pitois, S., Scott, J., Schilder, J., Stern, R., Tait, K.,  Whyte, C., Widdicombe, C. and McQuatters-Gollop, A. (2025) Mind the gap - the need to integrate novel plankton methods alongside ongoing long-term monitoring. Ocean and Coastal Management https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2025.107542 

Kléparski L, Ostle C, Batten SD, et al. How marine heatwaves are reshaping phytoplankton in the Northeast Pacific. Limnol Oceanogr. 2025:1-17.https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.70137 

Marchal, P., Giraldo, C., Johns, D.G., Lefebvre, S., Loots, C., and Toomey, L. (2025) Effects of zooplankton abundance on the spawning phenology of winter-spawning Downs herring (Clupea harengus) PLOS ONE 20(2): e0310388. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310388 

Morrison, C., Chauvenet, A.L., Kingsford, M.J., Suthers, I.M., Rubio, A., Lucas, C.H. and Pitt, K., 2025. Global review of jellyfish monitoring programs to design fit-for-purpose approaches. Marine Environmental Research, p.107696. 

Mutshinda CM, Finkel ZV, Irwin AJ (2025) Large, regionally variable shifts in diatom and dinoflagellate biomass in the North Atlantic over six decades. PLoS One 20(6): e0323675. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323675

Olin, A.B., Banas, N.S., Heath, M.R., Wright, P.J., MacDonald, A., Wanless, S., Daunt, F., Speakman, J.R. and Nager, R.G. 2025 Prey, not temperature is the dominant driver of juvenile growth in North Sea sandeels. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps15010 

Price, E., Mahaffey, C., Stern, R., Castellani, C. and Jeffreys, R.M. 2025. Dietary flexibility of Calanoid Copepods in the Sub-Arctic Atlantic: The role of protistan microzooplankton. Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71080 

Reuman, D.C., Walter, J.A., Sheppard, L.W., Karatayev, V.A., Kadiyala, E.S., Lohmann, A.C., Anderson, T.L., Coombs, N.J., Haynes, K.J., Hallett, L.M. and Castorani, M.C., 2025. Insights Into Spatial Synchrony Enabled by Long‐Term Data. Ecology Letters28(4), p.e70112. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70112 

Sarmento, H., Huber, P., Santos-Júnior, C.D. Johns, D.J., et al. The southern gap in ocean microbiome science. Ocean Microbiol. 1, 6 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s44375-025-00006-w 

van Walraven, L., Hoekendijk, J., Jak, R., Keur, M., Peck, N., Polling, M., Van Dalen, J. and Van Oevelen, D., 2025. Development of integrated zooplankton monitoring for the Dutch North Sea within the MONS project: ID14 MONS Monitoring Zooplankton Phase 1. 

Vilain, M., Goberville, E., Vincent, D., Benedetti, F and Olivier, F. (2025) Diel vertical migration shapes North Atlantic Copepod Bioregions. Journal of Biogeography, 52(6) https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15120  

Webb, T.J., Beja, J., Bejarano, S.J.F., Ramos, E., Sainz-Villegas, S., Soetaert, K., Stolte, W., Troupin, C. and Weigel, B., 2025. Realising the potential of interoperable data products to improve the outlook for marine biodiversity: Lessons from the European marine observation and data network. Marine Policy173, p.106578. 

Reports 

Devlin, M., Greenwood, N., Graves, C., Brookes, R., Best, M., O’Kane, E., Mellor, A., Charlesworth, M. and Johns, D.G. (2025) Integrated marine monitoring to protect the Irish Sea. Defra Science Blog. 

O’Reilly, M. and Johns, D.G. (2025) Thirty years of data quality assurance. The Marine Biologist, 33, 26-27 

 

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