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Planktonic organisms in the sea are subject to physical processes in addition to biological processes. It can be seen that physical effects become important in the distribution of organisms when the time scale of the process is comparable to (or smaller than) that of biological factors such as the time scale of organism reproduction.
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Okubo, A. (1978). Horizontal Dispersion and Critical Scales for Phytoplankton Patches. In: Steele, J.H. (eds) Spatial Pattern in Plankton Communities. NATO Conference Series, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2195-6_2
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