[Coral-List] Paper - Phytoplankton uptake and the ocean catchment

[Alex Wyatt]

Dear Coral List members,

 

List members may be interested in a recent publication in Marine Ecology
Progress Series concerning phytoplankton uptake by coral reef communities:

 

Wyatt ASJ, Lowe RJ, Humphries S, Waite AM (2010) Particulate nutrient fluxes
over a fringing coral reef: relevant 

      scales of phytoplankton production and mechanisms of supply. Mar Ecol
Prog Ser 405:113-130

 

The paper also introduces the concept of the 'ocean catchment' which is an
attempt to quantify the area of ocean that a benthic system may depend on
for planktonic food production and supply.  This may be of extra interest
given the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill - direct impacts aside, what are the
flow on effects on the benthic systems of the Gulf of Mexico from such an
apparently large-scale perturbation of the water column?

 

http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v405/p113-130/

 

Regards,

 

Alex Wyatt

 

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Alex S.J. Wyatt

Fulbright Western Australia Scholar

 

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Integrative Oceanography Division

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive

LA JOLLA CA, 92093-0227

Email: awyatt at graduate.uwa.edu.au