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PHYTONEUSTON ECOLOGY OF A TEMPERATE MARINE LAGOON 1
Author(s) -
Hardy John T.
Publication year - 1973
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.1973.18.4.0525
Subject(s) - phytoplankton , temperate climate , dominance (genetics) , bay , plankton , ecology , oceanography , environmental science , population , biology , nutrient , geology , biochemistry , demography , sociology , gene
Comparison of neuston (upper 0.4 cm) and plankton (10 cm deep) water samples from a temperate marine lagoon and an adjacent, less sheltered bay indicates that: 1) the surface microlayer exhibits greater and more rapid environmental fluctuations than the subsurface water; 2) no abundant phytoneuston populations develop outside the lagoon; 3) in the main lagoon fairly abundant phytoneuston populations develop; 4) phytoneuston population are most developed in the shallow sheltered pond area of the lagoon, particularly in summer; 5) taxonomic diversity is generally lower and dominance greater in well‐developed phytoneuston populations than in underlying phytoplankton populations; 6) photosynthetic assimilation ratios are greater in phytoneuston than in phytoplankton populations.