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Primary production of certain regions of the Mediterranean basin and Atlantic Ocean


L. V. Georgieva

Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, 2 Nahimov Avenue, Sevastopol 99011, Ukraine

Summary

Primary production was measured on the surface of certain regions of the Mediterranean basin and Atlantic Ocean. The values of the production varied within three orders. They were the least in the open regions of the Mediterranean Sea and in the sinking zone of the South Atlantic anticyclonic circulation waters. High levels of photosynthesis in the Mediterranean Sea were' observed in the regions affected by the Straits of Gibraltar and Bosporus and in the Atlantic Ocean in the upwelling and frontal zones.

Biologiya morya. - 1979. - Iss.49. - pp.55-59.


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