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Science 14 September 1984:
Vol. 225. no. 4667, pp. 1147 - 1150
DOI: 10.1126/science.225.4667.1147
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Large Yearly Production of Phytoplankton in the Western Bering Strait

R. N. SAMBROTTO 1, J. J. GOERING 1, and C. P. MCROY 1

1 Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska, Fairbanks 99701

Production in the western Bering Strait is estimated at 324 grams of carbon per square meter per year over 2.12x 104 square kilometers. An ice-reduced growing season makes this large amount of primary production unexpected, but it is consistent with the area's large upper trophic level stocks. The productivity is fueled by a cross-shelf flow of nutrient-rich water from the Bering Sea continental slope. This phytoplankton production system from June through September is analogous to a laboratory continuous culture.

Submitted on April 2, 1984
Accepted on May 16, 1984

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