Radiocarbon uptake: Its relation to net particulate carbon production 1
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Limnology and Oceanography
- Vol. 23 (1) , 179-184
- https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.1978.23.1.0179
Abstract
Organic carbon budgets for mixed cultures of lake phytoplankton indicate that [14C]CO2 uptake overestimates net particulate carbon production. The overestimate is slight (10–20%) for rapidly increasing assemblages, but ranges to severalfold for nutrient‐poor, slow‐growing cultures. A rationale is presented for estimating the yield of particulate carbon for natural assemblages from data on biomass and 14C uptake.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: