Bio-assay of nitrogen available to two species of phytoplankton in an off-shore water
- 1 February 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 36 (1) , 157-160
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s002531540001715x
Abstract
A bio-assay of the nitrogen which was available to two phytoplankton species with their associated bacteria in an off-shore water is described.The concentrations found by assay (11·5 and 13μg N/1.) were similar to the concentration of total inorganic nitrogen compounds found by analysis (10μg N/1.).Of the organic nitrogen normally present in solution in sea water, an insignificant quantity appears to be available to the plant-bacteria community.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- The determination of ammonia and total ionic inorganic nitrogen in sea waterJournal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 1957
- Conditions of Life at Great Depths in the OceanEcological Monographs, 1934