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The North Atlantic turbine: views of production processes from a mainly North Atlantic perspective
Author(s) -
WYATT T.,
JENKINSON I. R.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
fisheries oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.016
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1365-2419
pISSN - 1054-6006
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2419.1993.tb00138.x
Subject(s) - plankton , perspective (graphical) , microbial loop , oceanography , ecology , ecosystem , food chain , environmental science , food web , biology , geology , computer science , artificial intelligence
A brief account is given of the ‘agricultural hypothesis’, the key studies which led to its replacement by the ‘grazing hypothesis’, and early models of the classical planktonic food chain. The budgetary problems posed by these views led to interest in the roles of dissolved and particulate components of planktonic ecosystems, and to discovery of the ‘microbial loop’. The balance between these alternative pathways is seen to reflect processes at the interface between hydrodynamics and ecology.