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PLANKTONIC marine organisms often accumulate trace metals greatly in excess of their metabolic requirements and to concentrations 102–106 times those in sea water1. But variations in the concentration of trace metals in sea water are not usually affected unless there is a large production of plankton as there is in bloom conditions2.
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MORRIS, A. Trace Metal Variations in Sea Water of the Menai Straits caused by a Bloom of Phaeocystis. Nature 233, 427–428 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/233427a0
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