How do sinking phytoplankton species manage to persist?

American Naturalist

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 245-254

  Huisman, Jef ^a   Arrayás, Manuel ^a   Ebert, Ute ^a   Sommeijer, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Critical depth; Export production; Light limitation; Phytoplankton blooms; Reaction diffusion equation; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; LIMITING FACTOR; MIXING; PERSISTENCE; PHYTOPLANKTON; TURBULENCE;

EID: 0036187082     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/338511     Document Type: Article

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