Surface/Volume Ratio: Implications for Phytoplankton Morphology
- 28 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 192 (4242) , 885-887
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.192.4242.885
Abstract
Plankton autotrophs vary greatly in size and shape. Computation of surface/volume ratios for biomass units of 27 coexisting phytoplankton species in a tropical lake indicates that these ratios are conserved within a range much narrower than expected by random choice of shapes. Conservation of surface/volume ratios suggests new explanations for the shapes of phytoplankton biomass units.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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