JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 9 | NUMBER 2 | PAGES 267-276 | 1987
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Phytoplankton composition of the New York Bight and adjacent waters
1US Department of Commerce, National Marine Fisheries Center Sandy Hook Laboratory, Highlands, NJ 07732, USA Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23508
Received on February 1, 1985; accepted on December 1, 1986 The New York Bight possesses a diverse assemblage of phytoplankton where seasonal periods of high growth are dominated by several, chain-forming diatoms and a pico-nanoplankton component The composition is similar to other regions of the northeastern shelf, producing late winter-early spring and fall maxima.