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On the production of living matter in the sea off Plymouth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

H. W. Harvey
Affiliation:
Hydrologist at the Plymouth Laboratory

Extract

A study, now in progress, of the phosphorus cycle in the sea off Plymouth required some knowledge of the amount of plants and of several ecological groups of animals. There were no existing data except for zooplankton and the larger net-caught phytoplankton.

From information supplied by friends and colleagues, it was possible to make tentative estimates of the average biomass of other groups of animals occurring below unit area of the sea.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1950

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