Anticyclonic eddy edge effects on phytoplankton communities and particle export in the northern South China Sea

Lei Wang1, Bangqin Huang2, Edward A. Laws3, Kuanbo Zhou4, Prof. Xin Liu, PhD2, Yuyuan Xie5 and Minhan Dai2, (1)Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanographic Administration of China, Xiamen, China, (2)Xiamen University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen, China, (3)Louisiana State University, Department of Environmental Sciences, Baton Rouge, United States, (4)Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling (CENSAM) IRG, Singapore, Singapore, (5)Xiamen University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Sciences, Xiamen, China