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2000

Gulf of Mexico

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Form Ia Rbcl Transcripts Associated With A Low Salinity/High Chlorophyll Plume ('Green River') In The Eastern Gulf Of Mexico, John H. Paul, Albin Alfreider, Jordan B. Kang, Roger A. Stokes, Dale Griffin, Lisa Campbell, Erla Ornolfsdottir Jun 2000

Form Ia Rbcl Transcripts Associated With A Low Salinity/High Chlorophyll Plume ('Green River') In The Eastern Gulf Of Mexico, John H. Paul, Albin Alfreider, Jordan B. Kang, Roger A. Stokes, Dale Griffin, Lisa Campbell, Erla Ornolfsdottir

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Coastal plumes of low salinity water that extend hundreds of kilometers offshore into oligotrophic waters are often found in the Gulf of Mexico. To characterize one such feature, a series of photoautotrophic activity and biomass parameters were measured at 2 stations in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, including pigments by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), autotrophic picoplankton abundance by flow cytometry, photoautotrophic 14C-HCO3- fixation, and Ribulose-1,5-diphosphate carboxylase large subunit gene (rbcL) transcriptional activity. One sampling site (Stn 4) was in a 15 m deep, low salinity (29.8 ppt) plume 242 km west of Tampa Bay. …