Growthrate of Algae — dauta4 • mlfeaturer

Growthrates of four different phytoplankton species, dependent on temperature and light.

Format

Data frame with the following columns:

species: Phytoplankton species.
temperature: Temperature in °C.
light: Photosynthetic active radiation in µ E m^-2s^-1.
growthrate: Population growth rate in d^-1.

Source

The example data were taken manually from the figures of Dauta et al. 1990.

References

Dauta, A, Devaux, J, Piquemal, F and Boumnich, L (1990) Growth Rate of Four Algae in Relation to Light and Temperature. Hydrobiologia 207: 221–26. doi:10.1007/BF00041459