Small-scale spatial structure in plankton distributions
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Small-scale spatial structure in plankton distributions
The observed filamental nature of plankton populations suggests that stirring plays an important role in determining their spatial structure. If diffusive mixing is neglected, the various interacting biological species within a fluid parcel are determined by the parcel time history. The induced spatial structure has been shown to be a result of competition between the time evolution of the biol...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biogeosciences
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1726-4189
DOI: 10.5194/bg-4-173-2007