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Are Red Tides Correlated to Spring-Neap Tidal Mixing?: Use Of A Historical Record to Test Mechanisms Responsible for Dinoflagellate Blooms

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Tidal Mixing and Plankton Dynamics

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Vertical mixing is generally considered to be one of the most influential factors affecting phytoplankton abundance in the ocean (Sverdrup, 1953; Gran and Braarud, 1935). Changes in both phytoplankton abundance and species composition are thought to occur as a function of turbulence (Margalef, 1978). Research has therefore been directed at the sources of water column turbulence in nature and how these sources affect phytoplankton community dynamics.

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Balch, W.M. (1986). Are Red Tides Correlated to Spring-Neap Tidal Mixing?: Use Of A Historical Record to Test Mechanisms Responsible for Dinoflagellate Blooms. 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_7

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