Why are diverse relationships observed between phytoplankton biomass and transport time?

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A Place to Call Home: A Synthesis of Delta Smelt Habitat in the Upper San Francisco Estuary (2013, background): “Longer residence times are likely a major contributing factor to increased food web production in these regions (Lucas et al. 2009).”
Phytoplankton primary production in the world's estuarine-coastal ecosystems (2013, background): “In those circumstances phytoplankton biomass is inversely related to retention time (Lucas et al., 2009).”
Invited Review - Fight on Plankton! or, Phytoplankton Shape and Size as Adaptive Tools to Get Ahead in the Struggle for Life (2011, background): “…s) is several orders of magnitude lower than the time required by phytoplankton cells to replicate (105 – 106 s) or to develop a stable population (106 – 107 s) and clearly attest the dominance of mixed-layer advection in the vertical distribution of phytoplankton organisms (Lucas et al., 2009).”