期刊
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY
卷 259, 期 3, 页码 582-588出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.04.018
关键词
Phytoplankton; Size-scaling; Photosynthesis; Light harvesting; Nutrient uptake; Community size structure
资金
- NSERC Canada
- New Brunswick Innovation Fund
Communities of marine phytoplankton consist of cells of many different sizes. The size-structure of these communities often varies predictably with environmental conditions in aquatic systems. It has been hypothesized that physiological differences in nutrient and light requirements and acquisition efficiencies contribute to commonly observed correlations between phytoplankton community size structure and resource availability. Using physiological models we assess how light and nutrient availability can alter the relative growth rates of phytoplankton species of different cell sizes. Our models predict a change in the size dependence of growth rate depending on these verity of limitation by light and nutrient availability. Under conditions of growth-saturated resource supply, phytoplankton growth rate (mol C cell(-1) time(-1)) scales with cell volume with a size-scaling exponent of 3/4; light limitation reduces the size-scaling exponent to approximately 2/3, and nutrient limitation decreases the exponent to 1/3 as a consequence of the size-scaling of resource acquisition. Exponents intermediate between 1/3 and 3/4 occur under intermediate availability of light and nutrients and depend on the size-scaling of pigment photoacclimation and the size range examined. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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