Tidal Mixing and Plankton Dynamics

ISBN-13: 9780387963464 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 502 str.

Malcolm J. Bowman; Clarice M. Yentsch; William T. Peterson

Opis

This book represents an outgrowth of an interdisciplinary session held at the Seventh International Estuarine Research Federation Conference held at Virginia Beach, Virginia, OCLober 1983. At that meeting, the participants agreed to contribute to and develop a monograph entitled "Tidal Mixing and Plankton Dynamics" by inviting an expanded group of authors to contribute chapters on this theme. The emphasis would be to review and summarize the considerable body of knowledge that has accumulated over the last decade or so on the fundamental role tidal mixing plays in energetic shallow seas and estuaries in stimulating and controlling biological production. We have attempted to provide a mix of contributions, composed of reviews of the state-of-the-art, reports on current research activi ties, summaries of the design and testing of a new generation of innovative instruments for biological and chemical sampling and sorting, and some imaginative ideas for future experiments on stimulated mixing in continental shelf seas. We encouraged the contributors to present critical and thought provoking assessments of current wisdom specifying the sorts of techniques and observational strategies needed to validate the various hypotheses linking physical structure, mixing and circulation to plankton biomass and production. We hope this volume will appeal to incoming research students and established scholars alike. We certainly have enjoyed working with all the authors in compiling this book. We thank the numerous scientists who have served as reviewers, P. Boisvert for typing the manuscripts and W. Bellows for proofreading."

Spis treści

Phytoplankton Responses to Vertical Tidal Mixing.- Island Stirring Effects on Phytoplankton Growth.- Patterns of Phytoplankton Production Around the Galapagos Islands.- The Stimulation of Phytoplankton Production on the Continental Shelf within Von Karman Vortex Streets.- Dynamics of Phytoplankton Patches on Nantucket Shoals: an Experiment Involving Aircraft, Ships and Buoys.- The Influence of Tidal Mixing on the Timing of the Spring Phytoplankton Development in the Southern Bight of the North Sea, the English Channel and on the Northern Armorican Shelf.- Are Red Tides Correlated to Spring-Neap Tidal Mixing?: Use of a Historical Record to Test Mechanisms Responsible for Dinoflagellate Blooms.- Tidal Stirring vs. Stratification: Microalgal Dynamics with Special Reference to Cyst-Forming, Toxin Producing Dinoflagellates.- Dynamics of Larval Herring (ClupeaHarengus L.) Production in Tidally Mixed Waters of the Eastern Coastal Gulf of Maine.- The Importance of Bathymetry to Seasonal Plankton Blooms in Hecate Strait, B.C.- The Effects of Seasonal Variations in Stratification on Plankton Dynamics in Long Island Sound.- Observations of the Structure of Chlorophyll A in Central Long Island Sound.- Phytoplankton Patchiness in the Central Long Island Sound.- Empirical Models of Stratification Variation in the York River Estuary, Virginia, USA.- Temporal and Spatial Sequencing of Destratification in a Coastal Plain Estuary.- Effects of Tidal Mixing on the Plankton and Benthos of Estuarine Regions of the Bay of Fundy.- Real-Time Characterization of Individual Marine Particles at Sea: Flow Cytometry.- Development of a Moored in Situ Fluorometer for Phytoplankton Studies.- An Inexpensive Moored Water Sampler for Investigating Chemical Variability.- An Induced Mixing Experiment?.