Biological Oceanography

bright ambient light suppresses bioluminescence, presumably saving energy when luminescence could not be se ...

daughter portions of the nucleus along the inner surface of the nuclear membrane, following microtubules that ...

never quenched the curiosity they evoke, so research goes on. Phytoplankton Viruses (^) More than 50 ...

These are replaced by virus-like particles over the following 24 hours, with about 20% of cells infected. ...

are removed from a known volume of water with a suitably fine filter (glass-fiber mesh is most com ...

Box Fig. 2.5.2 Diel variations of integrated in vivo chlorophyll fluorescence (Fiv – solid line) in the ...

Satellite-based Estimates of Chlorophyll (^) All of oceanography, particularly its physical and biological ...

observable effects. From the shipboard perspective, they had been right. From the instantaneous ...

(essentially uncertainty for biological purposes) in the relationship of the water- leaving spectral ...

Box 2.6 Algorithms for satellite-based estimates of chlorophyll (^) The exact algorithms for SeaWiFS, MODIS, and MERIS ...

(^) Most such satellite estimators of chlorophyll in the sea surface in a pixel are functions of ratios of ...

Phytoplankton Pigments (^) Photosynthesis underlies most biological energy and material conversions on Earth, so ...

membrane. The only exit is through an enzyme complex, which uses the energy to esterify adenosine dipho ...

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Fig. 2.19 Biochemical pathways of photosynthesis. (^) The remainder of the photosynthetic process occurs ...

bicarbonate, ATP and NADPH. Sugars, lipids, and proteins are all produced by the dark reactions in the “stroma” ...

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*, important pigment; +, pigment present. Fig. 2.20 Fractions of chlorophyll-a associated with accessory ...

the northwest Atlantic (approximately 49°N, 20°W) in 1990. (^) (After Barlow et al. 1993.) Phytoplankton Functio ...

where ΣDPw represents the chlorophyll-a concentration reconstructed from the knowledge of the seven other pi ...