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Observations in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina (USA), indicate the presence of two kinds of conditions affecting the phytoplankton: one promotes growth, the other allows growth to take place with minimum interference, but does not in itself promote growth. Both kinds are beneficial to the species that experience them. Three examples of the second kind are: the case where some species grow while others remains roughly constant; cases where two species grow in unison and share the same biomass; the case wherein the maximum growths of species overlap.
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Communicated by J. Bunt, Miami
Contribution No. 2811 from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This study was supported by National Science Foundation Grant GA-29300, Atomic Energy Commission Contract AT(11-1)-3564 (Ref. C00-3564-2), and by the Office of Water Resources Research, Department of the Interior, through the Water Resources Research Institute, The University of North Carolina, as authorized under the Water Resources Research Act of 1964. Matching Grant Agreement Number 14-01-0001-1038, OWRR Project No. B-004-NS. Matching funds and other support were provided by the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company.
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Hulburt, E.M., Horton, D. Minimum interference between plankton species and its beneficial effect. Mar. Biol. 23, 35–38 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00394109
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