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THE changes in the plankton and their relationship to chemical and physical factors has long been a subject of inquiry, which is now being actively prosecuted along several lines. At the moment of writing, two research vessels on cruises round the world are investigating the distribution of manurial salts in the ocean waters and their relation to the quantity of planktonic life; the Meteor expedition in the South Atlantic has collected numerous data, and investigations are in progress on the Norwegian coast, off Heligoland, in the English Channel, and will shortly be instituted on the Great Barrier Reef upon varying facets of the same question.
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"The Relation of the Plankton to some Chemical and Physical Factors in the Clyde Sea Area," by S. M. Marshall and A. P. Orr . Jour. Marine Biological Association, vol. 14. pp. 837–868; 1927.
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H., H. The Growth of Vegetable Plankton in the Sea. Nature 122, 256 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122256a0
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