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Harris (1980a) reviewed the evidence for non-steady state conditions at a number of scales and showed how the processes of horizontal and vertical diffusion linked the scales of space and time in the planktonic environment. Goldman (1984) has invoked the dynamics of growth and grazing on small aggregates in the ocean to explain the close coupling between autotrophs and heterotrophs and the regeneration of nutrients at very small scales. That argument is a classic case of small scale, non-steady state events averaging out over larger scales to produce statistically discernible trends.
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Harris, G.P. (1986). Physiological scales: non-steady state conditions in the field. In: Phytoplankton Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4081-9_8
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