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Seasonal Changes in Net Phytoplankton of the West-Central North Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. W. Horwood ,
J. H. Nichols  and
Ruth Harrop
J. W. Horwood
Affiliation:
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Directorate of Fisheries Research, Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 OHT
J. H. Nichols
Affiliation:
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Directorate of Fisheries Research, Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 OHT
Ruth Harrop
Affiliation:
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Directorate of Fisheries Research, Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 OHT
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INTRODUCTION

In 1976 the Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft, carried out 13 plankton sampling cruises off the north-east coast of England. They spanned the months February-November. From these cruises Harding et al. (1978) described the distributions of surface chlorophyll and nutrients and the production offish eggs and larvae. Reynolds (1978) described in more detail the distributions of chlorophyll and phaeopigments throughout the year, and Horwood (1982) detailed the distribution of zooplankton biomass. This study presents the species composition of the algae from a small region of the survey area illustrated in Fig. 1.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , February 1982 , pp. 15 - 23
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1982

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