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A Phytoplankton Model for the Allocation of Gross Photosynthetic Energy Including the Trade‐Offs of Diazotrophy
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2018
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Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123(6), 1796-1816
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Journal Title:Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
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Description:Gross photosynthetic activity by phytoplankton is directed to linear and alternative electron pathways that generate ATP, reductant, and fix carbon. Ultimately less than half is directed to net growth. Here we present a phytoplankton cell allocation model that explicitly represents a number of cell metabolic processes and functional pools with the goal of evaluating ATP and reductant demands as a function of light, nitrate, iron, oxygen, and temperature for diazotrophic versus nondiazotrophic growth. We employ modelanalogues of Synechoccocus and Crocosphaera watsonii , to explore the trade-offs of diazotrophy over a range of environmental conditions. Model analogues are identical in construction, except for an iron quota associated with nitrogenase, an additional respiratory demand to remove oxygen in order to protectnitrogenase and an additional ATP demand to split dinitrogen. We find that these changes explain observed
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Source:Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123(6), 1796-1816
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ISSN:2169-8953;2169-8961;
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