Biological Oceanography

(^) Similar patterns also occur in the phytoplankton distributions after the main spring bloom, as seen i ...

Shifts of this sort, from diatoms to flagellates, can be caused by slowing of diatom growth when silicate ...

Fig. 11.13 Abundances of chain-forming diatoms during a 2005, 2-month deployment in Woods Hole Harbor of a ...

Sverdrup’s theory to take account of modern data describing rates of photosynthesis as a function of avai ...

spring), the deeper the critical depth. Increasing algal-growth rates near the surface increase the vertical ...

25° to 35°W using nine years of SeaWiFS data. Specifically for 45° to 50°N (Fig. 11.14), the surface chloro ...

The critical depth mechanism probably operates in the most accelerated phase of North Atlantic (and c ...

Dickey’s convincing model of the interactions among available irradiance, enhancement of absorbance by phy ...

varying seasons, then redistribute seaward, and capelin (Mallotus villosus) in northern reaches around Iceland ...

Indian Ocean and Australian sectors. (^) The density-driven meridional flows are associated with ascent of tempera ...

region is not particularly unusual, and that high rates of opal preservation in sediment are the main ...

(^) In the eastward outflow from Drake Passage, particularly in the vicinity of South Georgia, which is ...

timed molts (Ikeda & Dixon 1982). As light returns in spring during the melt-back of the ice, E. supe ...

new questions. For reasons that are largely political and coupled to interest in the common international “ownersh ...

exceed 50 μM south of ∼62°S. (^) Several subantarctic mesoscale iron-enrichment experiments (SoFEX and LOHA ...

cyclonic gyre over the Eurasian Basin and an anti-cyclonic gyre over the Canadian Basin. Those central ...

inflowing Pacific water which is less saline than Atlantic water (∼2500 km^3 yr−1). These freshwater i ...

For the shelf seas, the mixed-layer depth and nutrient levels are set by winter convection ...

initial nutrient level. As nutrients are drawn down, a subsurface chlorophyll maximum develops (Fig. 11.19). ...

Bering Strait/Chukchi Sea>230 42 Barents Sea <20–200 136 Interior shelves Beaufort Sea 30–70 8 Kara/Laptev/Siberia ...