Diversity and Production of Phytoplankton in the Offshore Mississippi River Plume and Coastal Environments

River discharge leads to extensive phytoplankton blooms often observed in ocean color satellite images to extend far into the open ocean as high chlorophyll plumes. We investigated diversity, distribution and ecology of phytoplankton populations in the Mississippi River plume, both spatially and in...

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Main Author: Wawrik, Boris
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2003
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Online Access:https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1503
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2502&context=etd