Reduced mixing generates oscillations and chaos in the oceanic deep chlorophyll maximum

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7074, 2006, Pages 322-325

  Huisman, Jef ^a   Pham Thi, Nga N ^b   Karl, David M ^c   Sommeijer, Ben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHAOS THEORY; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH KINETICS; OSCILLATIONS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CLIMATE MODELS; DEEP CHLOROPHYLL MAXIMA (DCM); PHYTOPLANKTON;

CHLOROPHYLL;

CHLOROPHYLL;

CHLOROPHYLL; DEEP SEA; LAYERED MEDIUM; OSCILLATION;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CARBON SOURCE; CHAOS THEORY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; OSCILLATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

EID: 31144448364     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04245     Document Type: Article

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