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Science 25 April 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5875, p. 448
DOI: 10.1126/science.1148974
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Response to Comment on "Eddy/Wind Interactions Stimulate Extraordinary Mid-Ocean Plankton Blooms"

Dennis J. McGillicuddy, Jr.,* James R. Ledwell, Laurence A. Anderson

The alternative mechanism proposed by Mahadevan et al. is an unlikely explanation for our observations because their model predicts a bloom at the periphery of the eddy, whereas the observations show it located at the eddy center, and because the vertical displacements caused by the nonlinear Ekman effect are too small to lead to an extraordinary biological response in this eddy.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543–1541, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dmcgillicuddy{at}whoi.edu

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)