This chapter reviews the current state of knowledge on bio-physical interactions at
mesoscale and at sub-mesoscale. It is focused on the mid-latitudes open ocean. From …

Time-series observations form a critical element of oceanography. New interdisciplinary
efforts launched in the past two decades complement the few earlier, longer-running time …

The shape of the productivity–diversity relationship (PDR) for marine phytoplankton has
been suggested to be unimodal, that is, diversity peaking at intermediate levels of …

Biogeochemical cycling in marine systems is intimately linked to the activity of specific
plankton functional types (PFTs) such as diatoms, coccolithophores and nitrogen fixers …

Mediated principally by the sinking of organic rich particles from the upper ocean, the
Biological Carbon Pump (BCP) is a significant component of the global carbon cycle. It …

This modern textbook of biological oceanography is aimed atstudents taking oceanography,
marine biology and marine sciencescourses. It covers recent developments such as the …

Application of biogeochemical models to the study of marine ecosystems is pervasive, yet
objective quantification of these models' performance is rare. Here, 12 lower trophic level …

FVCOM is a prognostic, unstructured-grid, Finite-Volume, free-surface, three-dimensional (3-
D) primitive equations Community Ocean Model developed originally by Chen et al.(2003a) …

A data assimilation technique is used with a simple but widely used marine ecosystem
model to optimize poorly known model parameters. A thorough analysis of the a posteriori …

The link between anthropogenic nutrient loads and the magnitude and extent of diatom and
Phaeocystis colony blooms in the Southern Bight of the North Sea was explored with the …