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A comparison of plant production estimates using14C and phosphate data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

John H. Steele
John H. Steele
Affiliation:
The Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen
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Organic production in the sea can be measured by studying the changes in phosphate throughout the water column. Results obtained by this method are compared with estimates of carbon uptake using 14C made on the Fladen Ground during 1955 and 1956. There is good general agreement between the two methods but some differences in the vertical distribution.

The results are also used to calculate filtering rates of phytoplankton and sinking rates of zooplankton, and to compare observed and predicted vertical distributions of chlorophyll.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , June 1957 , pp. 233 - 241
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1957

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