THE MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON AND ITS NUTRIENTS: NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS
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Date
1971
Authors
Lo, Patrick S. F.
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Abstract
Growth of phytoplankton can go on reasonably with only very small quantities of nutrients amounting to a: few milligrams of phosphorus as phosphate per cubic meter of sea water and usually a somewhat larger amount (about eight times by weight) of nitrate nitrogen. Their remarkable growth as compared with the growth of land plants at such great dilution is partly explained by t he microscopic size of the phytoplankton cells, which makes for better diffusion of nutrients a s well as a greater surface to volume ratio which promotes absorption (Raymont, 1963).
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33 pages
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Marine Biology, Phytoplankton, Nitrogen, Phosphorus