Document Type

Article

Department/Program

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Publication Date

1961

Journal

Limnology and Oceanography

Volume

6

Issue

4

First Page

369

Last Page

387

Abstract

Plankton production in Raritan Bay is described based on total chlorophyll data and two series of 24-hr dark and light bottle differential oxygen experiments. Maximum chlorophyll (r) recorded was 663 ,ug L-l in a bloom of Massutiia rotundata. Utility of pigment data in estimating productivity or biomass is regarded as dubious: i) 17.3 x lo6 chains of Skeletonema costatum once corresponded to only trace quantities of chlorophyll; ii) production occurred several times in absence of detectable chlorophyll.

Publication Statement

Contribution No. 93 from the Virginia Fisheries Laboratory.

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