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As shown in the previous study (Wilson et al., 1985), patchiness in chlorophyll a is observed in the northern and southern coastal regions of Long Island Sound. This patchiness is associated with riverine fronts (northern part) or with tidal streaming (southern part) (Bowman and Esaias, 1977). On the other hand, the distribution of chlorophyll a in the central region of Long Island Sound is fairly uniform, which suggests that a critical size of patchiness in the region should be much larger than one kilometer (Fig. 1).
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Okubo, A., Wilson, R.E. (1986). Phytoplankton Patchiness in the Central Long Island Sound. In: Bowman, M.J., Yentsch, C.M., Peterson, W.T. (eds) Tidal Mixing and Plankton Dynamics. Lecture Notes on Coastal and Estuarine Studies, vol 17. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4966-5_13
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