Phytoplankton biomass and residual nitrate in the pelagic ecosystem
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By Trevor Platt, David S. Broomhead, Shubha Sathyendranath, Andrew M. Edwards and Eugene J. Murphy 1Biological Oceanography Section, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2Y 4A2, Canada Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environmental Research Council, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
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