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PLANKTON PATCHINESS: EFFECTS ON REPEATED NET TOWS 1
Author(s) -
Wiebe Peter Howard,
Wiebe Peter Howard
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1968.13.2.0315
Subject(s) - plankton , net (polyhedron) , environmental science , abundance (ecology) , oceanography , mathematics , geology , ecology , biology , geometry
Simulated net tows in a computer model of a body of water containing aggregations of individuals demonstrated that the size and distribution of the patches significantly affects both the accuracy and the precision of estimates of abundance. A comparison between tows taken with nets of 25‐, 100‐, and 200‐cm diameter showed that, in general, estimates from the largest net were the most accurate and precise.