Cyanobacterial Blooms: Carbon and Nitrogen Limitation Have Opposite Effects on the Buoyancy of Oscillatoria
- 26 March 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 215 (4540) , 1629-1631
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.215.4540.1629
Abstract
Gas vacuolation in Oscillatoria rubescens decreased with increased nitrogen limitation and increased with transitions from nitrogen to inorganic carbon limitation. Gas vacuoles consist of protein vesicles that can accumulate in carbon- limited but not in unenriched nitrogen-limited cells. Nitrogen limitation is a factor in the formation of deep population maxima; carbon limitation can promote surface blooms.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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