Near-island biological hotspots in barren ocean basins.
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SUBMITTER: Gove JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4757766 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
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Near-island biological hotspots in barren ocean basins.
Gove Jamison M JM McManus Margaret A MA Neuheimer Anna B AB Polovina Jeffrey J JJ Drazen Jeffrey C JC Smith Craig R CR Merrifield Mark A MA Friedlander Alan M AM Ehses Julia S JS Young Charles W CW Dillon Amanda K AK Williams Gareth J GJ
Nature communications 20160216
Phytoplankton production drives marine ecosystem trophic-structure and global fisheries yields. Phytoplankton biomass is particularly influential near coral reef islands and atolls that span the oligotrophic tropical oceans. The paradoxical enhancement in phytoplankton near an island-reef ecosystem--Island Mass Effect (IME)--was first documented 60 years ago, yet much remains unknown about the prevalence and drivers of this ecologically important phenomenon. Here we provide the first basin-scale ...[more]
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