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Phytoplankton response to intrusions of slope water on the West Florida Shelf: Models and observations
| Title: | Phytoplankton response to intrusions of slope water on the West Florida Shelf: Models and observations. |
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| Name(s): |
Walsh, John J., creator Weisberg, Robert H., creator Dieterle, Dwight A., creator He, Ruoying, creator Darrow, Brian P., creator Jolliff, Jason K., creator Lester, Kristen M., creator Vargo, Gabriel A., creator Kirkpatrick, Gary J., creator Fanning, Kent A., creator Sutton, Tracey T., creator Jochens, Ann E., creator Biggs, Douglas C., creator Nababan, Bisman, creator Hu, Chuanmin, creator Muller-Karger, Frank E., creator Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 2003 | |
| Publisher: | American Geophysical Union | |
| Extent: | 24 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3172985 (digitool), FADT3172985 (IID), fau:5721 (fedora), 10.1029/2002JC001406 (doi) | |
| Note(s): |
Previous hypotheses had suggested that upwelled intrusions of nutrient-rich Gulf of Mexico slope water onto the West Florida Shelf (WFS) led to formation of red tides of Karenia brevis. However, coupled biophysical models of (1) wind- and buoyancy-driven circulation, (2) three phytoplankton groups (diatoms, K. brevis, and microflagellates), (3) these slope water supplies of nitrate and silicate, and (4) selective grazing stress by copepods and protozoans found that diatoms won in one 1998 case of no light limitation by colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM). The diatoms lost to K. brevis during another CDOM case of the models. In the real world, field data confirmed that diatoms were indeed thedominant phytoplankton after massive upwelling in 1998, when only a small red tide of K. brevis was observed. An edited version of this paper was published by AGU. This publication may be cited as: Walsh, J. J., Weisberg, R. H., Dieterle, D. A., Ruoying H., Darrow, B. P., Jolliff, J. K., Lester, K. M., Vargo, G. A., Kirkpatrick, G. J., Fanning, K. A., Sutton, T. T., Jochens, A. E., Biggs, D. C., Nababan, B., Hu, C., & Muller-Karger, F. E. (2003). Phytoplankton response to intrusions of slope water on the West Florida Shelf: Models and observations. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(C6), 3190. doi:10.1029/2002JC001406. Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1552. Continental shelf |
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| Subject(s): |
Phytoplankton Red tide --Florida Diatoms Upwelling (Oceanography) |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3172985 | |
| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2002JC001406 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©2003 American Geophysical Union | |
| Host Institution: | FAU | |
| Related Title: | English. |
