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The North Atlantic Spring Phytoplankton Bloom and Sverdrup's Critical Depth Hypothesis

The North Atlantic Spring Phytoplankton Bloom and Sverdrup's Critical Depth Hypothesis

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The North Atlantic Spring Phytoplankton Bloom and Sverdrup's Critical Depth Hypothesis

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The North Atlantic Spring Phytoplankton Bloom and Sverdrup's Critical Depth Hypothesis

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Washington, DC: American Society for the Advancement of Science

Journal title

Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2002-04, Vol.296 (5568), p.730-733

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English

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Washington, DC: American Society for the Advancement of Science

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Contents

More than 50 years ago, Harald Sverdrup developed a simple model for the necessary conditions leading to the spring bloom of phytoplankton. Although this model has been used extensively across a variety of aquatic ecosystems, its application requires knowledge of community compensation irradiance (IC), the light level where photosynthetic and ecosy...

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The North Atlantic Spring Phytoplankton Bloom and Sverdrup's Critical Depth Hypothesis

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_71659083

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_71659083

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ISSN

0036-8075

E-ISSN

1095-9203

DOI

10.1126/science.1069174

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