Marine phytoplankton account for about 50% of all global net primary productivity (NPP). Active fluorometry, mainly Fast Repetition Rate fluorometry (FRRf), has been advocated as means of providing high resolution estimates of NPP. However, not measuring CO2-fixation directly, FRRf instead provides photosynthetic quantum efficiency estimates from which electron transfer rates (ETR) and ultimate...

Photo credit: Markus Scholz for the Leopoldina Born in 1949 Current position Professor (emeritus), Translational Matrix Biology, University of Cologne 1974–1975 M.D. thesis Pharmacology, Free Berlin 1967–1973 Medical School, 1991 (C4/W3) 1984 (C2) 1983 Habilitation Dermatology and Venereology (O. Braun-Falco), Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich 1975 Dr. med., 2019-present Vice President, Nat...

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