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Seasonal studies on the phytoplankton and primary production in the inner Firth of Clyde

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

A. D. Boney
A. D. Boney
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Department of Botany, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland
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Analysis of the factors influencing the seasonal changes in biomass of the ‘net’ phytoplankton in 1972– 73 snowed that the dynamics of the spring waxing of the diatom populations were controlled by narrow ‘windows’ of climatic events, and that subsequent fluctuations in cell numbers were linked with the interplay between zooplankton grazing and wind induced dispersion. Data for 1976–77, set against a similar background of events with the ‘net’ plankton, showed that the nanophytoplankton constituted a less variable biomass through the seasons and, on an annual basis, contributed some 50% of the total carbon fixed.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 90: The Environment of the Estuary and Firth of Clyde , 1986 , pp. 203 - 222
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1986

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