Turbulence drives microscale patches of motile phytoplankton

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Durham, William M ^a,b   Climent, Eric ^c   Barry, Michael ^a   De Lillo, Filippo ^d,e   Boffetta, Guido ^e   Cencini, Massimo ^f   Stocker, Roman ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^f ISC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; MOTILITY; PATCHINESS; PHYTOPLANKTON; TURBULENCE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; HETEROSIGMA AKASHIWO; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROSCALE PATCHES; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; PLANT ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW;

ECOSYSTEM; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON;

EID: 84880358713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3148     Document Type: Article

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