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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-251-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-251-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Brief communication
| 
06 Feb 2018
Brief communication |
| 06 Feb 2018
Photosynthesis–irradiance parameters of marine phytoplankton: synthesis of a global data set
Heather A. Bouman
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK
Trevor Platt
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, PL1 3DH, UK
Martina Doblin
Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, P.O. Box 123 Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
Francisco G. Figueiras
Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas (CSIC), Eduardo Cabello 6, 36208 Vigo, Spain
Kristinn Gudmundsson
Marine Research Institute, P.O. Box 1390, 121 Reykjavík, Iceland
Hafsteinn G. Gudfinnsson
Marine Research Institute, P.O. Box 1390, 121 Reykjavík, Iceland
Bangqin Huang
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science/Key Laboratory of Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, Ministry of Education, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China
Anna Hickman
Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK
Michael Hiscock
United States Environmental Protection Agency, Ariel Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C., 20460, USA
Thomas Jackson
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, PL1 3DH, UK
Vivian A. Lutz
Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo Pesquero, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Frédéric Mélin
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra 21027, Italy
Francisco Rey
Institute of Marine Research, c/o Department of Biological Sciences, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1066, 0316, Oslo, Norway
Pierre Pepin
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, P.O. Box 5667, St John's, Newfoundland, A1C 5X1, Canada
Valeria Segura
Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo Pesquero, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Gavin H. Tilstone
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, PL1 3DH, UK
Virginie van Dongen-Vogels
Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, P.O. Box 123 Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
Shubha Sathyendranath
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, PL1 3DH, UK
National Centre for Earth Observation, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, Plymouth PL1 3DH, UK
Data sets
A global dataset of photosynthesis-irradiance parameters for marine phytoplankton H. A. Bouman, T. Platt, M. A. Doblin, F. G. Figueiras, K. Gudmundsson, H. G. Gudfinnsson, B. Huang, A. Hickman, M. R. Hiscock, T. Jackson, V. A. Lutz, F. Melin, F. Rey, P. Pepin, V. Segura, G. Tilstone, V. van Dongen-Vogels, and S. Sathyendranath https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.874087
Short summary
The photosynthetic response of marine phytoplankton to available irradiance is a central part of satellite-based models of ocean productivity. This study brings together data from a variety of oceanographic campaigns to examine how the parameters of photosynthesis–irradiance response curves vary over the global ocean. This global synthesis reveals biogeographic, latitudinal and depth-dependent patterns in the photosynthetic properties of natural phytoplankton assemblages.
The photosynthetic response of marine phytoplankton to available irradiance is a central part of...
