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dc.contributor.authorGierach, Michelle M.eng
dc.contributor.authorSubrahmanyam, Bulusueng
dc.contributor.authorSamuelsen, Annetteeng
dc.contributor.authorUeyoshi, Kyozoeng
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-21T14:54:49Z
dc.date.available2009-10-21T14:54:49Z
dc.date.issued2009-04-03eng
dc.PublishedGeophysical Research Letters 2009;36(7):L07604
dc.identifier.issn0094–8276
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1956/3527
dc.description.abstractThis was the first study to analyze phytoplankton and zooplankton community size structure during hurricane passage. A three-dimensional biophysical model was used to assess ecosystem dynamics, plankton biomass, and plankton distribution in the Gulf of Mexico during Hurricane Katrina (2005). Model simulations revealed that large phytoplankton were most responsive to hurricane-induced turbulent mixing and nutrient injection, with increases in biomass along the hurricane track. Small phytoplankton, microzooplankton, and mesozooplankton biomass primarily shifted in location and increased in spatial extent as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane passage disrupted the distribution of plankton biomass associated with mesoscale eddies. Biomass minimums and maximums that resided in the center of warm- and cold-core eddies and along eddy peripheries prior to hurricane passage were displaced during Hurricane Katrina.en_US
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Unioneng
dc.titleHurricane-driven alteration in plankton community size structure in the Gulf of Mexico: A modeling studyeng
dc.typeJournal articleeng
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1029/2009gl037414
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400nob


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