Biological Fronts in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, and Their Relation to Recent Measurements of Primary Productivity

Abstract

Frontal regions of high chloropyll fluorescence in the Strait of Georgia have been compared with calculated values of the stability expression, log sub(10)(h u super(-3)). Boundary areas of high chlorophyll were shown to exist at the northern and southern ends of the Strait as well as among the different island groups. These results have been used to discuss earlier differences noted in average annual primary productivity values of the Strait of Georgia, as observed over the last decade.