Poster Session I, Region 2: Equatorial Pacific chaired by Robert Le Borgne

Richard T. Barber, Regulation of productivity rates and yields in oceanic ecosystems: A JGOFS overview with emphasis on the equatorial Pacific Ocean

F. Chai, Modeled decadal variability of primary productivity and air-sea CO₂ flux in the equatorial Pacific Ocean

Gérard Eldin, Observations of the frontal zone between the HNLC upwelling area and the oligotrophic Warm Pool in the equatorial Pacific

R.A. Feely, CO₂ mass balance and gas exchange during the GasEx-2001 experiment in the eastern equatorial Pacific

Hezi Gildor, A role for ocean biota in tropical intraseasonal atmospheric variability

Harry W. Higgins, Phytoplankton communities and primary production in the Western Equatorial Pacific and Bismarck Sea: Effects of the ENSO phase, macronutrients and suspended sediments

Michael R. Hiscock, Maximum quantum yield responses of phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean and eastern equatorial Pacific

Robert Le Borgne, Carbon fluxes in the equatorial Pacific: a synthesis of the JGOFS programme

Robert Le Borgne, Equatorial upwellings in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans: a comparative study

Christophe Menkes, Tropical instability vortices: a major control of the ecosystem in the tropical Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

Marie-Hélène Radenac, Nitrate distribution in the equatorial Pacific during the 1997 El Niño: biological processes vs. vertical and horizontal physical processes