Sufficient noise and turbulence can induce phytoplankton patchiness
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Sufficient noise and turbulence can induce phytoplankton patchiness
Phytoplankton patchiness ubiquitously observed in marine ecosystems is a simple physical phenomenon. Only two factors are required for its formation: one is persistent variations of inhomogeneous distributions in the phytoplankton population and the other is turbulent stirring by eddies. It is not necessary to assume continuous oscillations such as limit cycles for realization of the first fact...
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عنوان ژورنال: Natural Science
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2150-4091,2150-4105
DOI: 10.4236/ns.2010.24040