Growth rate of four freshwater algae in relation to light and temperature

✍ Scribed by Alain Dauta; Jean Devaux; Françoise Piquemal; Lhoussaine Boumnich

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 457 KB
• Volume: 207
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-5141
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00041459

✦ Synopsis

Four algae of freshwater phytoplankton were studied in monospecific culture: Chlorella vulgar-is, Fragilaria crotonensis, Staurastrum pingue and Synechocystis minima. Experiments were performed to determine the growth rate over a wide range of light intensities (5-800 PE me2 s-', 15/9 light/dark photoperiod) and temperatures (lo-35 'C). The results provide a set of parameters (particularly the maximal growth rate associated to optimal conditions of light and temperature) for a three-equation model used to described the growth rate response of a non-nutrient-limited culture.