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Application of Enclosures to the Study of Marine Pelagic Systems

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Marine Mesocosms

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The most obvious and frequently cited reason to investigate pelagic ecosystems in large enclosed units is the inherent difficulty of repetitively sampling the same group of organisms in the same body of water in an open water pelagic environment. Factors such as lateral transport, patchiness, and migratory movements all compound the uncertainty regarding successive events in open water ecosystems. It is, of course, relatively simple to isolate individual components of the ecosystem and study them under intensive laboratory conditions. But apart from the uncertainty as to how much these experiments truly represent reality, only in a very few specialized cases can interactive systems comprising several trophic levels be maintained on a laboratory scale. Therefore, a chief objective of enclosure experiments has been to sustain a representative, naturally proportioned, multitrophic ecosystem over more than the generation time of at least the third trophic level.

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Gamble, J.C., Davies, J.M. (1982). Application of Enclosures to the Study of Marine Pelagic Systems. In: Grice, G.D., Reeve, M.R. (eds) Marine Mesocosms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5645-8_3

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