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Influence of temporal characteristics of physical phenomena on plankton dynamics, as shown by North-West European marine ecosystems

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Toward a Theory on Biological-Physical Interactions in the World Ocean

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This contribution shows that food chain structures, not only general productivity levels, are governed by temporal characteristics of nutrient dynamics at physical interfaces, or, in other words, by the temporal modulation of auxiliary energy transfers at ergoclines. The examples used, based upon both literature reviews and preliminary original results from a recent cruise, are taken from pelagic ecosystems in north-west European seas, where nutrient enrichment processes are periodic and tide-dependent. The period is that of the M2 tide at the Celtic Sea shelf-break, where time-integration in the ecosystem appears to result in enhanced general productivity in the form of a classical herbivore food chain. The period is fortnightly (neaps-springs alternation) at shelf-sea tidal fronts, where herbivores apparently cannot adapt themselves to short-lived phytoplankton outgrowths every second week; phytoplankton biomass is accordingly allowed to accumulate in hydrodynamic traps and recycled first by microheterotrophs, which are preyed upon, in turn, by larger-sized microphagous zooplankters.

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Le Fèvre, J., Frontier, S. (1988). Influence of temporal characteristics of physical phenomena on plankton dynamics, as shown by North-West European marine ecosystems. In: Rothschild, B.J. (eds) Toward a Theory on Biological-Physical Interactions in the World Ocean. NATO ASI Series, vol 239. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3023-0_14

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