Spring bloom dynamics in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard: nutrients, phytoplankton, protozoans and primary production

The early spring 1995 nutrient distributions clearly indicated that the spring bloom period in the Gulf of Riga is potentially N-limited, since during the homothermal and

High biomass of heterotrophic ciliates and dinoflagellates was observed in April during the phytoplankton spring bloom, coinciding with moderate abundance of large copepods..

This difference in contribution to biomass and to primary production from phytoplankton present in the early bloom stages and between small and large cells could be explained

During the spring bloom chlorophyll reaches considerably higher maximum (per bin) levels in the Iceland Sea and especially the Labrador Sea, doc- umenting that

The main effect of climatic variations is in determining the timing of the phytoplankton spring bloom in the different water masses, Warm years are

The model emphasizes the importance of the ice edge spring phytoplankton bloom for the spawning and development of zooplankton and for the northwards seasonal

In regions where spring blooms occurred at high frequency (i.e., proportion of years that a bloom was detected), there was a negative correlation between bloom timing and

In this study, phytoplankton diversity was studied using traditional microscopic techniques and the bacterial communities associated with phytoplankton bloom were stud- ied