Abstract
Along 125°E in the East China Sea and the Kuroshio area in May 1971, oil globules were widely distributed in the surface water, mainly in the layer upper than 4 m. The highest value, 11 mg/m3 in wet weight, was obtained at the surface layer of St. 3(28°N). Blue-green algae (Trichodesmium thiebautii andT. erythraeum), pennate diatoms (Nitzschia closterium etc.), stony corals, bryozoans, barnacles (Lepas sp.) and copepods attached to oil globules. Morphological description of two species ofTrichodesmium was given.
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Marumo, R., Kamada, K. Oil globules and their attached organisms in the East China Sea and the Kuroshio area. Journal of the Oceanographical Society of Japan 29, 155–158 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02109091
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