The relative productivity of individual cells in a mixed phytoplankton community has been determined by (14)C autoradiography. These data allow the estimation of the relative contribution of each of the component species to total community production, illustrate the size—specific production of the cells of each of these species, and suggest predictions concerning future successional developments of the community.
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Maguire et al. (1971) studied this question.
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