Biological Oceanography

names using general knowledge of ocean and global geography. The oddly rectilinear boundaries are an artifact ...

et al. 2009). There have been numerous other regional projects in the last three decades, mount ...

(^) (After Martin & Fitzwater 1988.) The subarctic Pacific region is a cyclonic gyre, with the North P ...

surface salinity results from a combination of strong precipitation over the coastal rim of mountains draining ...

The halocline acts as a strong mixing barrier, preventing full ventilation to the surface layer from ...

300–400 m. (^) As stated, the dominant phytoplankton are in the nano- and pico- size range. ...

(^) The interactions of these lower trophic levels result in a still unexplained variation in phytoplankton st ...

The overall pattern (Fig. 11.5) could be: (^1) A predator–prey oscillation: the protozoa eat down the phytopla ...

and deepen the euphotic zone (but without swirling phytoplankton down to darker layers), allowing an i ...

μM, and nitrate was reduced from 11 to 4 μM. The SEEDS I experiment was similar, but in the western gyre (48.5°N ...

about a year of migrations all around the islands of Japan, then gathers to spawn at sites in the East ...

The mechanisms controlling the timing and intensity of spring blooms in inshore, temperate waters, across the North ...

because the overall bloom can be constituted of several, sequential blooms of different species. Estimates of g ...

mixing increases surface-layer nutrients to their seasonal high, setting the stage for phytoplankton growth ...

depth are from community metabolism of photosynthate. In addition, however, there will be losses from t ...

grazer stocks are very low in winter and early spring, the theory works well because grazing then is a min ...

The JGOFS North Atlantic Bloom Experiment (^) In the oceanic Atlantic north of 45°N, particularly ...

inverse correlation (Fig. 11.11). The connection is certainly causal: the growing phytoplankton reduce ...

Fig. 11.11 Scatter diagram showing the relation between chlorophyll-a and nitrate concentrations during the BOFS ...

(^) Over this entire region on any given date, the bloom appears to be extremely patchy, to occur in meso ...