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Photosynthetic Parameters, Irradiance, Biooptical Properties and Production Estimates in the Western Ross Sea

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Ross Sea Ecology

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The primary production characteristics of phytoplankton coenoses were investigated during three summer periods (1987–88, 1989–90 and 1994–95), in Terra Nova Bay. The basic photosynthetic parameters of the P vs. E curves were analyzed, as well as the in vivo spectral absorption and fluorescence properties, which allow the maximum quantum yield for carbon uptake and for PSII fluorescence to be appreciated and compared, in order to evaluate the physiological conditions and the photoacclimation performance of this phytoplankton. Low light acclimation features (elevated values of αB, PB max and φm, with Ek between 11 and 102µE m-2 s-1) are clearly present in these natural populations. High daily productions of the water column have been estimated through a biooptical model (0.1–3.1 g C m-2 day-1), and a seasonal integrated value of 125g C m-2 has been appreciated at Terra Nova Bay, for the period from December through February.

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  1. Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, Università di Firenze, Via P.A. Micheli 1, 50121, Florence, Italy

    L. Lazzara, M. Innamorati, L. Massi, G. Mori & C. Nuccio

  2. Stazione Zoologica A. Dohrn, Naples, 80121, Italy

    V. Saggiomo

  3. Dipartimento di Zoologia, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

    O. Mangoni

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Lazzara, L. et al. (2000). Photosynthetic Parameters, Irradiance, Biooptical Properties and Production Estimates in the Western Ross Sea. In: Faranda, F.M., Guglielmo, L., Ianora, A. (eds) Ross Sea Ecology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59607-0_21

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