Scales of nutrient-limited phytoplankton productivity in Chesapeake Bay

@article{Malone1996ScalesON,
  title={Scales of nutrient-limited phytoplankton productivity in Chesapeake Bay},
  author={Thomas C. Malone and Daniel J. Conley and Thomas R. Fisher and Patricia M. Glibert and Lawrence W. Jr. Harding and Kevin G. Sellner},
  journal={Estuaries},
  year={1996},
  volume={19},
  pages={371-385},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:84062438}
}
The scales on which phytoplankton biomass vary in response to variable nutrient inputs depend on the nutrient status of the plankton community and on the capacity of consumers to respond to increases in phytoplankton productivity. Overenrichment and associated declines in water quality occur when phytoplankton growth rate becomes nutrient-saturated, the production and consumption of phytoplankton biomass become uncoupled in time and space, and phytoplankton biomass becomes high and varies on… 
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