The problems of application of radiocarbon method for estimation of primary production in oligotrophic waters

Type Proceedings paper
Date 1984-11
Language English
Author(s) Krupatkina D, Berland B, Maestrini S
Meeting Production et relations trophiques dans les ecosystemes marins. Yalta 27 Octobre-2 Novembre 1984
Source Actes de colloques. Ifremer. Brest [ACTES COLLOQ. IFREMER.]. 1984
Keyword(s) Methodology, Community composition, Nutrient cycles, Phytoplankton, Ecosystems, Carbon 14, Primary production, Analytical techniques
Abstract The errors in primary production estimation by the radiocarbon method may differ from one trophic region to another. Such supposition is based on unequal phytoplanktonic structural characteristics of these regions. These errors are likely to appear rather significant in oligotrophic waters predominated by nano- and ultranano-plankton (the so-called picoplankton). The organic substance of oligotrophic waters is obviously produced by picoplankton for the most part, the need for clarifying possible errors when estimating primary production by the radiocarbon method, which is the purpose of the present work is urgent. For these topics in oligotrophic waters, measurements were carried out in two ways: (1) according to the generally accepted pattern (Sorokin, 1956, 1958) and (2) with the use of methodical experiments aimed at modifying that pattern.
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Krupatkina D, Berland B, Maestrini S (1984). The problems of application of radiocarbon method for estimation of primary production in oligotrophic waters. Actes de colloques. Ifremer. Brest [ACTES COLLOQ. IFREMER.]. 1984. https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/1522/