Ambon Bay has a shallow neritic inner bay and a deep oceanic outer bay. Net hauls suggest the inner bay has a large population of large phytoplankton cells but a small population of macrozooplankton. In the outer bay the opposite situation exists, with a greater population of macrozooplankton and smaller population levels of small phytoplankton. The differences might be caused by nutrient pollution and siltation in the inner bay.
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