Studies of Phytoplankton Species and Photosynthetic Pigments in a Warm Core Eddy of the East Australian Current. II. A Note on Pigment Methodology
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Inter-Research Science Center in Marine Ecology Progress Series
- Vol. 3 (4) , 295-301
- https://doi.org/10.3354/meps003295
Abstract
Photosynthetic pigments in a warm core eddy of the East Australian Current were studied by in vivo fluorometry, spectrophotometry and TLC. The Variosens in situ fluorometer gave only an approximate guide to the location and quantity of phytoplankton in the water column; spectrophotometric curve analysis revealed the presence of intact or detrital chlorophylls and quantitative TLC showed that in some samples intact chlorophyll a accounted for only 50-70% of the total spectrophotometrically measured chllrophyll. The full range of chlorophylls, carotenoids and chlorophyll degradation products was recorded from the chromatograms.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Studies of Phytoplankton Species and Photosynthetic Pigments in a Warm Core Eddy of the East Australian Current. I. Summer PopulationsMarine Ecology Progress Series, 1980
- Rapid underway profiling of chlorophyll with an in situ fluorometer mounted on a ‘Batfish’ vehicleDeep Sea Research, 1977