Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2009
The part played by nutrient salts in the study of marine productivity is well known. When this series of production cruises was being planned, it was decided to take observations of the quantities of different nutrients in the sea. The cruises were closely spaced in time in order to provide an opportunity for examining the fairly rapid changes in nutrient content in relation to algal numbers. Nutrient observations were not made at such frequent intervals of time, because the spectrophotometer could not be used from R.V. ‘Platessa’. On ‘Sir Lancelot’ it was found that the spectrophotometer could be used adequately only when the ship was steaming before the wind and constituted a stable platform; this limit, however, reduced the opportunities for sampling nutrients in the desired positions.
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