Primary Productivity or Potential Primary Productivity
Phytoplankton Biomass estimates in gC m-3 or gC m-2 units
The Eastern Atlantic coast of Marocco is a meso to euthrophic region due to the upwelling regime, which is frequent from April to September. The high-productive upwelling area off Morocco is part of one of the four major trade-wind driven conti-nental margin upwelling zones in the world ocean. Nutrient-rich coastal water is transported within the Cape Ghir filament region at 30ºN up to several hundreds of kilometers offshore (Freudenthal et al, 2002) Due to its high productivity conditions, a phytoplankton dominated by diatoms is expected.
