Biological Oceanography

200 μm mesh nets demonstrate low amplitude (about two-fold) seasonal cycles around an annual mean ...

(^) Mesozooplankton in the NPSG are a diverse array despite their low population biomass, wit ...

sequence of trophic levels. Smaller fishes in the epipelagic far from land are dominated by ...

Equatorial Biomes Eastern Tropical Pacific (^) Biomes vary along the equatorial band. We will consider the ...

more normal (colder, richer) conditions in late summer, not to a recurring seasonal difference. The mean mea ...

Table 11.5 Chlorophyll and primary production between 2°N and 2°S integrated to the 0.1% light level in the easte ...

depth to the surface and Pacific deep water is highly supersaturated with CO 2 , the region is a source of ...

On a ∼3- to 6-year cycle, weakening of the trade winds reduces equatorial upwelling and the war ...

swimming pool along a direct route between Panama City and Tahiti. Serial abundance estimates ...

Zonal gradients of the major phytoplankton nutrients apparent across the cold- tongue of upwelled ...

al. 2010; Kaupp et al. 2011). The shears between the westward-flowing South Equatorial Current, t ...

platform. Probably that’s correct. Results of the entire global suite of iron-addition studies are summarized by ...

Pacific is evident in standing stocks of upper trophic levels and in sinking fluxes of organic material. Planktiv ...

Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) Programme from 1995 to 2005 (Robinson et al. 2006). The field ...

enhanced general phytoplankton growth. Tyrrell et al. suggest that Trichodesmium fixes N 2 and re ...

and fish production (Table 11.8). Extensive (but still incomplete) comparisons are reported by Mackas ...

Ekman transport of surface water offshore in the California Current System (CCS) (Fig. 11.38) leads to a cr ...

Fig. 11.39 Coastal upwelling and wind-stress curl upwelling mechanisms. Upwelling moves nutrients (dots) into ...

(^) Nitrate appears to be the most limiting nutrient in all four EBCS. In the CCS, surface ni ...

dominated by large cells, especially chain-forming diatoms. During the upwelling season, chlorophyll levels r ...