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JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 1 | NUMBER 4 | PAGES 343-354 | 1979
© Oxford University Press

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Phytoplankton Respiration in the Peru Upwelling*

Frank W. Setchell and Theodore T. Packard

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences McKown Point, W. Boothbay Harbor, Maine 04575, U.S.A.

Received on April 1, 1979; revised on September 1, 1979; accepted on September 1, 1979

Respiratory electron transport system (ETS) measurements were made on the microplankton in the Peru upwelling system near 15°S during March, April, and May of 1977. The close association between chlorophyll-{alpha} biomass and ETS activity indicate that the microplankton were predominantly phytoplankton. Phytoplankton respiration average 14% of gross fixed carbon. When zooplankton respiration in the euphotic zone is considered, the total plankton respiration represented an average of 19% of gross primary production.

*Contribution Number 79002 from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.


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