A new publication shows that spring phytoplankton blooms occur 1-2 weeks earlier over the last 20 years in the central Baltic Sea. Warmer temperature advance timing of diatom and dinoflagellates, the two dominant taxonomic groups of the spring bloom, and decrease bloom magnitude. Bloom timing of the entire species composition was, however, buffered by a … More Shifting spring phytoplankton blooms in the Baltic Sea