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Spring blooms and annual cycles of phytoplankton: a unified perspective
Citation
Chiswell, SM and Calil, PHR and Boyd, PW, Spring blooms and annual cycles of phytoplankton: a unified perspective, Journal of Plankton Research, 37, (3) pp. 500-508. ISSN 0142-7873 (2015) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1093/plankt/fbv021
Abstract
Several hypotheses exist that describe phytoplankton spring blooms in temperate and subpolar oceans: the critical depth, shoaling mixed layer (ML), critical turbulence, onset of stratification and disturbance-recovery hypotheses. These theories appear to be mutually exclusive and none of them describe the annual cycle of phytoplankton biomass. Here, we present a model of the annual cycle in phytoplankton that recognizes that phytoplankton are not always mixed throughout the so-called ML, and that it is important to distinguish between the surface biomass and depth-integrated phytoplankton. Once these important distinctions are made, the annual cycles and blooms in surface and depth-integrated phytoplankton can be described straightforwardly in terms of the physical drivers and biotic responses.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | phytoplankton, annual cycles, spring blooms, mixed layer |
Research Division: | Earth Sciences |
Research Group: | Oceanography |
Research Field: | Biological oceanography |
Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
Objective Group: | Management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments |
Objective Field: | Biodiversity in Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments |
UTAS Author: | Boyd, PW (Professor Philip Boyd) |
ID Code: | 108706 |
Year Published: | 2015 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 36 |
Deposited By: | IMAS Research and Education Centre |
Deposited On: | 2016-05-04 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-01 |
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