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JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 9 | NUMBER 6 | PAGES 1183-1194 | 1987
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Planktonic biomass spectra dynamics during a winter production pulse in Mediterranean coastal waters

Jaime Rodriguez, Francisco Jiménez, Begoña Bautista and Valeriano Rodriguez

Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga 29071 Málaga, Spain

Received on February 14, 1987; accepted on August 8, 1987 The time evolution of planktonic biomass spectra was investigated during a winter production pulse in the Mediterranean coastal waters of the bay of Málaga (Southern Spain). Biomass spectra were defined for individual sizes ranging from 128 to 30 x 106 µm3 (nano- to mesozooplankton) through the image analysis of plankton samples. The winter biomass spectrum is perturbed by sharp fluctuations in those size classes which correspond to the so-called net-plankton, but there is not a direct propagation of the instability to larger size classes. We hypothesize an indirect biomass flow through a detrital compartment which could be used by the omnivorous zooplankton. The existence of ‘bottlenecks’ in the flow of energy within a formal biomass spectrum makes it necessary to combine this approach with the construction of a dctrital compartment, at least for the particular case of coastal waters.


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