Large Yearly Production of Phytoplankton in the Western Bering Strait
- 14 September 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 225 (4667) , 1147-1150
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.225.4667.1147
Abstract
Production in the western Bering Strait is estimated at 324 grams of carbon per square meter per year over 2.12x 104 square kilometers. An ice-reduced growing season makes this large amount of primary production unexpected, but it is consistent with the area's large upper trophic level stocks. The productivity is fueled by a cross-shelf flow of nutrient-rich water from the Bering Sea continental slope. This phytoplankton production system from June through September is analogous to a laboratory continuous culture.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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