GREEN LIGHT AS A POSSIBLE PRESSING FACTOR FOR OCEANIC PHYTOPLANKTON NEAR THE BASE OF THE EUPHOTIC ZONE

Authors
KUKHTIN VV KUZMENKO NV SHRAMKO OV
Citation
Vv. Kukhtin et al., GREEN LIGHT AS A POSSIBLE PRESSING FACTOR FOR OCEANIC PHYTOPLANKTON NEAR THE BASE OF THE EUPHOTIC ZONE, Journal of theoretical biology, 188(3), 1997, pp. 319-322
Citations number
34
Categorie Soggetti
Biology Miscellaneous
Journal title
Journal of theoretical biology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00225193
Volume
188
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
319 - 322
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-5193(1997)188:3<319:GLAAPP>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
Optical characteristics of chlorophylls, carotenoids, and type III cle an oceanic waters (as characterized by Jerlov) and the permanent prese nce of large amounts of phytoplankton near the base of the euphotic zo ne irrespective to the position of a nutricline enable the advancement of a hypothesis on the inhibiting action of green light on some deep- water species of phytoplankton. By numerical solution of the model equ ations, the appearance of a quasistationary distribution of phytoplank ton at some fixed depth is demonstrated. (C) 1997 Academic Press Limit ed.