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Chlorophyll a Fluorescence in Aquatic Sciences: Methods and Applications pp 103–127Cite as

Estimating Aquatic Productivity from Active Fluorescence Measurements

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One of the major uses of active chlorophyll fluorescence in aquatic studies has been to examine primary productivity free from constraints associated with ‘conventional’ gas exchange-based measurements. Fluorescence can be measured directly in situ and without the need to incubate discrete samples that have been removed from natural inherent environmental variability (Kolber and Falkowski 1993). Additionally, the high rate of data collection afforded by fluorometry allows investigations of the coupling of productivity to physical forcing and hence the examination of transient phenomena that can have a disproportionate impact on the functional response of aquatic systems (Kolber et al. 1990; Falkowski et al. 1991; Moore et al. 2003). In spite of these advantages, fluorescence-based productivity applications have, to some extent, taken a considerable time to become firmly established within conventional aquatic sampling disciplines.

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Suggett, D.J., Moore, C.M., Geider, R.J. (2010). Estimating Aquatic Productivity from Active Fluorescence Measurements. In: Suggett, D., Prášil, O., Borowitzka, M. (eds) Chlorophyll a Fluorescence in Aquatic Sciences: Methods and Applications. Developments in Applied Phycology, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9268-7_6

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