Plankton blooms induced by turbulent flows

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1517, 2003, Pages 875-880

  Reigada, R ^a   Hillary, R M ^b   Bees, M A ^c   Sancho, J M ^a   Sagues F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inertial and viscous effects; Plankton blooms; Plankton patchiness

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; PLANKTON; SEASONAL VARIATION; TOXIC ORGANISM; TURBULENT FLOW;

ARTICLE; HABITAT PATCHINESS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURBULENT FLOW; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 0242416545     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2298     Document Type: Article

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