Response to comment on "Eddy/wind interactions stimulate extraordinary mid-ocean plankton blooms"
McGillicuddy Jr., D.J.; Ledwell, J.R.; Anderson, L.A. (2008). Response to comment on "Eddy/wind interactions stimulate extraordinary mid-ocean plankton blooms". Science (Wash.) 320(5875): 448c (1-2). https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1148974
In: Science (Washington). American Association for the Advancement of Science: New York, N.Y. ISSN 0036-8075; e-ISSN 1095-9203, more
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Mid-ocean eddies
Plankton blooms
Marine/Coastal |
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- McGillicuddy Jr., D.J.
- Ledwell, J.R.
- Anderson, L.A.
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| Abstract |
The alternative mechanism proposed by Mahadevan et al. is an unlikely explanation for our observations because their model predicts a bloom at the periphery of the eddy, whereas the observations show it located at the eddy center, and because the vertical displacements caused by the nonlinear Ekman effect are too small to lead to an extraordinary biological response in this eddy. |
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