Marine Phytoplankton and Productivity

When I was asked to organize this symposium on marine producti­ vity, it made me reflect on what aspects of this subject would be stimulating to a heterogeneous group of laboratory-oriented physiolo­ gists and biochemists. In recent years there have been several books which discusses the methodology commonly used in primary production studies and described the magnitude of photosynthetic CO reduction 2 in various areas of the world's oceans. I therefore decided to dis­ pense with these conventional aspects of primary production and invite researchers to speak on a variety of problems relating the abundance and activity of phytoplankton to environmental conditions. The lectures I invited were thus quite diverse in character, but all were related either to factors affecting the rate of photosynthesis or to the fate of reduced carbon as it passes through the microbial food web. In addition to these talks the participants benefited from a number of shorter presentations and poster sessions which dealt with production and cycling of organic carbon in the marine environment. February 1984 Osmund HOLM-HANSEN CONTENTS 1. Factors Governing Pelagic Production in Polar Oceans E. SAKSHAUG and O. HOLM-HANSEN .. ... ..... . . . . . .. .... . ..... .. .... 1 2. Productivity of Antarctic Waters. A Reappraisal S. Z. EL-SAYED .. . . ......... . .... .. .......... .... .. .. . . . .. . . . .. 19 3. A Thermodynamic Description of Phytoplancton Growth D. A. KIEFER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 4. Mechanisms of Organic Matter Utilization by Marine Bacterio­ plankton 45 F. AZAM and J. W.

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1. Factors Governing Pelagic Production in Polar Oceans.- 2 Productivity of Antarctic Waters. A Reappraisal.- 3. A Thermodynamic Description of Phytoplancton Growth.- 4. Mechanisms of Organic Matter Utilization by Marine Bacterioplankton.- 5 Phytoplankton Solved the Arsenate-Phosphate Problem.- 6 Excretion of Organic Carbon as Function Nutrien Stress.- 7. Seasonal Changes in Primary Production and Photoadaptation by the Reef-Building Coral Acropora granulosa on the Great Barrier Reef.- 8 General Features of Phytoplankton Communities and Primary Production in the Gulf of Naples and Adjacent Waters.- 9. Understanding Oligotrophic Oceans : Can the Eastern Mediterranean be a Useful Model ?.- 10 Growth Rates of Natural Populations of Marine Diatoms as Determined in Cage Culture.- 11. Observed Changes in Spectral Signatures of Natural Phytoplankton Populations : The Influence of Nutrient Availability.- 12. Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting : Problems and Promises for Biological Ocean Science Research.- 13 Determination of Absorption and Fluorescence Excitation Spectra for Phytoplankton.