Turbulence and phytoplankton diversity: A general model of the “paradox of plankton”

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

2013 • 8,086 citations

Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity

1966 • 5,216 citations

The Competitive Exclusion Principle

1960 • 3,259 citations

Predation, Body Size, and Composition of Plankton

1965 • 3,237 citations

The Paradox of the Plankton

1961 • 2,964 citations

Fundamentals of Ecology

1972 • 2,503 citations

Resource Competition between Plankton Algae: An Experimental and Theoretical Approach

1977 • 1,233 citations

Environment, Power and Society

1970 • 1,138 citations

COMPETITION, HABITAT SELECTION, AND CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT IN A PATCHY ENVIRONMENT

1964 • 900 citations

On the Chemical Composition of Eleven Species of Marine Phytoplankters

1961 • 640 citations

The Ecological Regulation of Species Diversity

1964 • 615 citations

Environment, Power, and Society

1972 • 539 citations

Systems Analysis and Simulation in Ecology.

1977 • 483 citations

Selective Grazing and Differential Digestion of Algae by Zooplankton

1973 • 436 citations

Spectral Analysis in Ecology

1975 • 412 citations

Ecological Competition Between Algae: Experimental Confirmation of Resource-Based Competition Theory

1976 • 373 citations

Diversity and Stability in Ecological Systems

1971 • 360 citations

The Struggle for Existence

1936 • 344 citations

Contemporaneous Disequilibrium, a New Hypothesis to Explain the „Paradox of the Plankton”

1970 • 293 citations

Benthic marine diversity and the stability-time hypothesis.

1969 • 290 citations

Mineral Cycling in Southeastern Ecosystems.

1978 • 274 citations

Mineral cycling in southeastern ecosystems

1977 • 207 citations

THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF NANNOPLANKTON AND NETPLANKTON AS PRIMARY PRODUCERS IN TROPICAL OCEANIC AND NERITIC PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES1

1971 • 204 citations

Herbivory as a factor in patterns of nutrient utilization in the sea1

1976 • 187 citations

Microdistribution of plankton

1963 • 183 citations

Local phytoplankton abundance and turbulence

1972 • 180 citations

Some Effects of Low-velocity Currents on the Metabolism of Aquatic Macrophytes

1967 • 159 citations

Some effects of current velocity on periphyton communities in laboratory streams

1966 • 159 citations

THE SIZE, SHAPE AND DENSITY OF MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON CONCENTRATIONS

1957 • 148 citations

Dynamics of Microbial Populations

1971 • 142 citations

Spatial Heterogeneity and Population Stability

1974 • 137 citations

The Dynamics of Nutrient Limitation of Phytoplankton Algae: A Model Reconsidered

1974 • 136 citations

The Current Effect and Growth of Fresh-Water Algae

1960 • 132 citations

Sorne concepts relative to the organization of plankton

1967 • 125 citations

Spatial Scales of Current Speed and Phytoplankton Biomass Fluctuations in Lake Tahoe

1975 • 122 citations

Effect of a Current on Respiration and Mineral Uptake In Spirogyra and Oedogonium

1964 • 119 citations

A model of patchiness for prey—predator plankton populations

1975 • 107 citations

The Importance of Natural Diffusion Gradients and Transport of Substances Related to Benthic Marine Plant Metabolism

1968 • 101 citations

Primary Productivity and Fertility at Station "P" in the North-East Pacific Ocean

1960 • 100 citations

A Theoretical Approach to Interspecific Competition in Phytoplankton Communities

1973 • 96 citations

Spatial Heterogeneity of Phytoplankton in a Near-Shore Environment

1970 • 95 citations

The Paradox of the Plankton: An Equilibrium Hypothesis

1975 • 94 citations

An Elementary Theory of Interspecific Competition

1957 • 82 citations

Some Factors Affecting Respiration of Periphyton Communities in Lotic Environments

1966 • 59 citations

Simulation Models of Ecosystems

1975 • 53 citations

Oceanic Turbulence and the Langmuir Circulations

1971 • 53 citations

FRACTIONATION OF PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES OFF THE WASHINGTON AND OREGON COASTS1

1965 • 44 citations

On advection in phytoplankton models

1973 • 39 citations

SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF THE PRODUCTIVITY: BIOMASS RATIO FOR PHYTOPLANKTON IN A SMALL MARINE BASIN

1973 • 37 citations

Ecological Significance of the Shapes of Abundance-Frequency Distributions for Coexisting Phytoplankton Species

1977 • 25 citations

Water and Water Pollution Handbook, Vol. 1

1973 • 22 citations

THE RELATION OF PERIPHYTIC AND PLANKTONIC ALGAL GROWTH IN AN ESTUARY TO HYDROGRAPHIC FACTORS

1972 • 19 citations

Competitive Exclusion

1961 • 14 citations

Spatial patterns in a nutrient-plankton model

1978 • 5 citations

Consequences of small storage capacity in nannoplankton pertinent to measurement of primary production in tropical waters

1965 • 5 citations

The influence of eddy diffusion and advection on plankton population systems

1976 • 5 citations

Ecological Importance of Temporal Variations

1972 • 3 citations