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25 Years of Algal Growth Kinetics A Personal View

25 Years of Algal Growth Kinetics A Personal View Droop: Algal growth kinetics Botanica Marina Vol. XXVI, pp. 99-112, 1983 25 Years Botanica Marina M. R. Droop Scottish Marine Biological Association, Dunstaffnage Marine Research Laboratory, P.O.Box 3, Oban, Argyll, Scotland (Received August 17, 1982) ,,Der liebe Gott l t die B ume nicht in den Himmel wachsen" The past 25 years have witnessed a growing interest in the relation of microalgal growth to the nutrient supply, with a view perhaps more to quantifying the role microalgae play in nature than elucidating the underlying biochemistry of the algal cell. I intend in this short essay for the Botanica Marina silver jubilee (Festschrift) to indulge in a personal, and in part retrospective, view of this field, and shall be concerned principally with the Cell Quota model of algal growth control. over, the only way biomass can be limited is by reducing the rate of increase to zero. Thus in such a System the specific growth rate will appear s some function of the biomass. Consequently, most postMalthusian thought on populations was concerned empirically with the nature of that function. The earliest, simplest and indeed most successful and still in many circumstances the most useful, hypothesis was that of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Botanica Marina de Gruyter

25 Years of Algal Growth Kinetics A Personal View

Droop, M. R.
Botanica Marina , Volume 26 (3) – Jan 1, 1983
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Droop: Algal growth kinetics Botanica Marina Vol. XXVI, pp. 99-112, 1983 25 Years Botanica Marina M. R. Droop Scottish Marine Biological Association, Dunstaffnage Marine Research Laboratory, P.O.Box 3, Oban, Argyll, Scotland (Received August 17, 1982) ,,Der liebe Gott l t die B ume nicht in den Himmel wachsen" The past 25 years have witnessed a growing interest in the relation of microalgal growth to the nutrient supply, with a view perhaps more to quantifying the role microalgae play in nature than elucidating the underlying biochemistry of the algal cell. I intend in this short essay for the Botanica Marina silver jubilee (Festschrift) to indulge in a personal, and in part retrospective, view of this field, and shall be concerned principally with the Cell Quota model of algal growth control. over, the only way biomass can be limited is by reducing the rate of increase to zero. Thus in such a System the specific growth rate will appear s some function of the biomass. Consequently, most postMalthusian thought on populations was concerned empirically with the nature of that function. The earliest, simplest and indeed most successful and still in many circumstances the most useful, hypothesis was that of the

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