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There was agreement among members of the working group that, in the next 5–10 years, the process-oriented focus of field studies should be maintained. This orientation is viewed as a third phase in the historical evolution of modern biological oceanography, in which the regional studies of the 1940s and 1950s identified the important classes of biological oceanographic processes, and which were followed by a period during the late 1960s and 1970s when intensive laboratory studies of the physiology, biochemistry and behaviour of single species were emphasized. More recently, there has been a tendency for the scientists to go back into the field and to apply the conceptual understanding and the methods developed in the laboratory to natural systems. The purpose of the process-oriented field studies over the next 5–10 years is to understand better the mechanisms by which both environmental and biological forcing act upon autotrophs to regulate their production rates, biomass and species composition. The scales in environmental forcing functions among different regions in the ocean should be carefully considered in the context of understanding the coupling with autotrophic processes.
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Legendre, L. et al. (1984). Studies on Marine Autotrophs: Recommendations for the 1980s. In: Fasham, M.J.R. (eds) Flows of Energy and Materials in Marine Ecosystems. NATO Conference Series, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0387-0_23
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