Scaling Laws in Phytoplankton Nutrient Uptake Affinity
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Scaling Laws in Phytoplankton Nutrient Uptake Affinity
Nutrient uptake affinity affects the competitive ability of microbial organisms at low nutrient concentrations. From the theory of diffusion limitation it follows that uptake affinity scales linearly with the cell radius. This is in conflict with some observations suggesting that uptake affinity scales to a quantity that is closer to the square of the radius, i.e., to cell surface area. We show...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Marine Science
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2296-7745
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00026