Breaking internal waves on a Florida (USA) coral reef: a plankton pump at work?

Temperature, salinity, flow speeds, and plankton concentrations can be highly variable on the slope of Conch Reef, Florida Keys (USA), as warm surface water is mixed with cool, subsurface water forced onshore by broken internal waves. In August 1995 the water column seaward of the reef exhibited str...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Marine ecology. Progress series (Halstenbek) 1998-01, Vol.166, p.83-97
Hauptverfasser:	Leichter, James J., Shellenbarger, Gregory, Genovese, Salvatore J., Wing, Stephen R.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Chlorophylls Coral reefs Corals Crabs Fish larvae Internal waves Larvae Madracis mirabilis Marine Plankton Pocilloporidae Scleractinia Surface water Zooplankton
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