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Articles | Volume 12, issue 6
Articles | Volume 12, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1915-2015
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1915-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 6
Reviews and syntheses
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24 Mar 2015
Reviews and syntheses |  | 24 Mar 2015

Poor correlation between phytoplankton community growth rates and nutrient concentration in the sea

A. Regaudie-de-Gioux, S. Sal, and Á. López-Urrutia

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We question here is whether phytoplankton community growth rates respond to nutrient concentration in a similar manner to phytoplankton species composing the community, that is, following Monod's model. In situ marine community growth rates in relation to nutrient concentration and the behaviour of a simple multi-species community model show that community growth rate does not follow Monod's model. We observed here that this can be explained as a consequence of change in size structure.
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