Effect of Low pH on Carbohydrate Production by a Marine Planktonic Diatom (Chaetoceros muelleri)
Table 1
Chaetoceros muelleri biomass
and growth. Actual pH was the pH
measured over the course of 6 days in culture. Growth rate derived from changes in in vivo chlorophyll fluorescence between days 2 and 5. Biomass is expressed as diatom concentration
(cells m) and chlorophyll a (chl. a) concentration (g ). These data were used to calculate chl. a content per cell (fg cel)
on day 5. Values are means ± standard
deviation ( replicate cultures).