Small-scale turbulence in the plankton: Low-order deterministic chaos or high-order stochasticity?

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 341, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 495-525

  Seuront, Laurent ^a,b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Chaos; Determinism; Multiscaling; Patchiness; Phytoplankton; Scaling; Stochasticity; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

DETERMINISM; PATCHINESS; PYTOPLANKTON; SCALING; STOCHASTICITY;

BIOMASS; CORRELATION METHODS; ECOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; TURBULENCE;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

EID: 3343011455     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.04.128     Document Type: Article

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