The size of water masses containing plankton blooms

Authors

Henry Kierstead, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
L. Basil Slobodkin, Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Abstract

If a phytoplankton population is assumed to be increasing logarithmically in a mass of water surrounded by water which is unsuitable for the survival of the population, it can be shown that there is a minimum critical size for the water mass below which no increase in concentration of phytoplankton can occur....

Recommended Citation

Kierstead, Henry, and L. B. Slobodkin. 1953. "The size of water masses containing plankton blooms." Journal of Marine Research 12, (1). https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/journal_of_marine_research/788