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Journal of Plankton Research Vol.22 no.3 pp.597-602, 2000
© Oxford University Press 2000

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On filament width in oceanic plankton distributions

Adrian P. Martin

School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton and George Deacon Division, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK

A plankton patch deformed by diffusion, straining flow and biological growth is demonstrated to have a minimum width, {surd}{kappa}/{lambda}, which is purely a function of the effective diffusivity, {kappa}, and the strain rate, {lambda}.


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