
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Blackburn, SI 
A1  - Cresswell, G 
T1  - A coccolithophorid bloom in Jervis Bay, Australia
JF  - Marine and Freshwater Research
JO  - Mar. Freshwater Res.
Y1  - 1993
VL  - 44
IS  - 2
SP  - 253
EP  - 260
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/MF9930253 
N2  - A massive algal bloom of the coccolithophorid Gephyrocapsa oceanica Kamptner (Prymnesiophyceae) developed in Jervis Bay, a coastal embayment at 34ºs on the New South Wales coast, in mid December 1992. The bloom coloured the entire bay a dramatic milky blue-green, which was clearly visible from aircraft and detectable in the visible band by the US satellite NOAA-11. The bloom, which reached cell densities of 1.8 x 107 cells L-1, persisted for a month. Such high densities of coccolithophorids have not been recorded before in Australian waters. Furthermore, it is the first record, world-wide, of a large-scale mono-specific bloom of G. oceanica. The bloom is suggested to have been driven by an intrusion of continental-slope water that continuously entered into the bottom of the bay. 
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