Premium
Silicon content of five marine plankton diatom species measured with a rapid filter method 1
Author(s) -
Paasche E.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1980.25.3.0474
Subject(s) - plankton , diatom , silicon , intensity (physics) , polycarbonate , light intensity , oceanography , filter (signal processing) , materials science , environmental science , optics , geology , optoelectronics , physics , composite material , computer science , computer vision
The silicon content of five species of marine planktonic diatoms grown in laboratory culture was measured by a method involving soda hydrolysis of cells collected on polycarbonate filters. An increase in the temperature or light intensity during growth resulted in an increase in the Si content in some species and a decrease in others. The magnitude of these changes depended on whether the results were expressed as pg Si·cell −1 , pg Si· µ m −2 cell surface area, or pg Si per pg C.