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Does the Benthos Control Phytoplankton Biomass in South San Francisco Bay?
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South San Francisco Bay, USA, is a shallow coastal embayment that receives large inputs of nutrients (N.P, Si) and small local inputs of freshwater.Phytoplankton dynamics are typically characterized by a spring bloom when surface chlorophyll a increases from < 5 to > 40 mg m-3.The bloom persists for 2 to 4 wk, and then dissipates.Phytoplankton biomass remains low (chlorophyll a < 5 mg m-3) from May through December, although light and nutrient availability are sufficient to sustain growth rates of 1 to 1.5 divisions d-' in the expansive shallows.Transport processes apparently exert a small influence on phytoplankton biomass, and calculated zooplankton grazing accounts for only a small reduction in net rate of phytoplankton population growth in the shallows.However, suspension-feeding bivalves are sufficiently abundant to filter a volume equivalent to the volume of South Bay at least once daily.These observations suggest that grazing by benthos is the primary mechanism controlling phytoplankton biomass during summer and fall.
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- Cloern, J.
- Venue
- Marine Ecology Progress Series
- Publisher
- Inter-Research Science Center
- Published
- 1982
- Volume
- 9
- Pages
- 191-202
- ISSN
- 0171-8630 (ISSN-L)
- 1616-1599
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- W2060353678
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- References
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- 7.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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