Carbon-to-chlorophyll ratio and growth rate of phytoplankton in the sea
Sathyendranath, S.; Stuart, V.; Nair, A.; Oka, K.; Nakane, T.; Bouman, H.; Forget, M.-H.; Maass, H.; Platt, T. (2009). Carbon-to-chlorophyll ratio and growth rate of phytoplankton in the sea. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 383: 73-84. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps07998
In: Marine Ecology Progress Series. Inter-Research: Oldendorf/Luhe. ISSN 0171-8630; e-ISSN 1616-1599, meer
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| Trefwoorden |
Aquatic communities > Plankton > Phytoplankton
Chemical reactions > Photochemical reactions > Photosynthesis
Growth rate
Ocean color
Remote sensing
Marien/Kust |
| Author keywords |
Phytoplankton; Particulate carbon; Carbon-to-chlorophyll ratio; Growthrates; Photosynthesis-Irradiance parameters; Functional types; Remotesensing; Ocean colour |
| Auteurs | | Top |
- Sathyendranath, S.
- Stuart, V.
- Nair, A.
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- Oka, K.
- Nakane, T.
- Bouman, H.
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- Forget, M.-H.
- Maass, H.
- Platt, T.
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| Abstract |
Observations from offshore regions (NW Atlantic and Arabian Sea) and from a semienclosed bay (Tokyo Bay) were used to study the relationships between chlorophyll and particulate carbon in the sea. A simple conceptual model was then developed to infer in situ phytoplankton carbon as a function of chlorophyll a. This allowed indirect estimates of the carbon-to-chlorophyll ratio of phytoplankton in the sea. Using data from high-performance liquid chromatography, and their carbon-to-chlorophyll ratios were established. The computations yielded conservative estimates for the ratio the carbon-to-chlorophyll ratios in the NW Atlantic. Since methods were already in place to estimate photosynthesis-irradiance parameters for the region by remote sensing (Platt et al. 2008), we showed that it was method makes it possible to compute primary production by using either carbon-based growth models or photosynthesis-irradiance models in ways that are fully comparable with each other. |
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