Effect of oil production and drilling operations on the ecology of phytoplankton in the OEI study area

Fucik, K. W. and S. Z. El-Sayed

Abstract

From the Abstract: “Between June 1972 and January 1974, twelve cruises were made to study photosynthetic rates and the standing crop of phytoplankton off the Louisiana coast. Data from a production platform were compared with data from a control station 6 miles northwest of the platform with regard to photosynthetic activity of phytoplankton, chlorophyll a as a measure of the standing crop species composition, and nutrient

Date: 

1979

Book/Report Title: 

The Offshore Ecology Investigation. Effects of Oil Drilling and Production in a Coastal Environment

Pages: 

325–353

Editors: 

C. H. Ward, M. E. Bender, and D. J. Reish

Publisher: 

Rice University Series 65 (4 and 5), Houston, Texas.

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