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Title:
Topographically Controlled Fronts in the Ocean and Their Biological Influence
Authors:
Wolanski, Eric; Hamner, William M.
Publication:
Science, Volume 241, Issue 4862, pp. 177-181 (Sci Homepage)
Publication Date:
07/1988
Origin:
JSTOR
DOI:
10.1126/science.241.4862.177
Bibliographic Code:
1988Sci...241..177W

Abstract

Headlands, islands, and reefs generate complex threedimensional secondary flows that result in physical and biological fronts. Mixing and diffusion processes near these reefs and headlands are quite different from these processes in the open sea, and classical advection-diffusion models that were developed for the open sea are not valid near shore. Topographically generated fronts affect the distribution of sediments, and they aggregate waterborne eggs, larvae, and plankton. This aggregation influences the distribution and density of benthic assemblages and of pelagic secondary and tertiary predators.
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