A model of plankton patchiness

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Abstract
A model is proposed suggesting how the interaction of diel migration with tides and residual drift can lead to cyclical variations in the rate of drift of zooplankton. This in turn varies the length of time that a so‐called “mesoscale” patch of zooplankton will be associated with any given parcel of surface phytoplankton, and resulting differences in grazing pressure can produce phytoplankton patchiness. The latter may then stimulate the development of patchiness in zooplankton, producing the well known inverse relation between the two populations.

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