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JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 11 | NUMBER 3 | PAGES 575-581 | 1989
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Bias in satellite-derived pigment measurements due to coccolithophores and dinoflagellates

William M. Balch, Richard W. Eppley1, Mark R. Abbott2 and Freda M.H. Reid1

Division of Biology and Living Resources, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149-1098, USA 1Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093 2College of Oceanography, Oregon State University Oceanography Administration Building 104, Corvallis, OR 97331-503, USA

Received on August 24, 1988; accepted on February 6, 1989 Satellite-derived estimates of phytoplankton pigments are thought to be affected by the phytoplankton species composition. Measurements of surface algal chlorophyll and satellite-derived pigment were compared for waters containing coccolithophores and dinoflagellates. Satellite-derived chlorophyll concentration was underestimated by a factor of 2–3 in a patch of the large coccolithophore, Umbilicosphaera sibogae, and also in a bloom of the dinoflagellate, Gonyaulax polyedra. Overall abundance and species-specific properties such as light scatter and vertical migration probably caused these results.


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