Interacting Effects of Light and Iron Availability on the Coupling of Photosynthetic Electron Transport and CO2-Assimilation in Marine Phytoplankton.
Iron availability directly affects photosynthesis and limits phytoplankton growth over vast oceanic regions.For this reason, the availability of iron is a crucial variable to consider in the development of active chlorophyll a fluorescence based estimates of phytoplankton primary productivity.These bio-optical approaches require a conversion factor