Assessment of the relationships between dominant cell size in natural phytoplankton communities and the spectral shape of the absorption coefficient

By Á. Ciotti, M. Lewis, J. Cullen. 2002

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Assessing phytoplankton community composition from hyperspectral measurements of phytoplankton absorption coefficient and remote-sensing reflectance in open-ocean environments (2015, background): “Diatoms are characterized by fucoxanthin as their main carotenoid and are typically large cellswith a high degree of pigment packaging (e.g., Ciotti et al., 2002; Devred et al., 2006; Uitz et al., 2008).”
Bringing physics to life at the submesoscale (2012, background): “The degree of geostrophic balance is quantified in terms of the Rossby number Ro = U/fL, where U is the characteristic velocity at a front, L is the frontal width and f is the Coriolis parameter: geostrophic balance holds if Ro≪ 1.”
Evaluation of biophysical and optical determinations of light absorption by photosystem II in phytoplankton (2004, background): “Artifacts attributable to light scattering and related to factors such as cell size, shape, or lith coverage in coccolithophores may lead to overestimates of optical absorption measurements (Ciotti et al. 2002; Suggett et al. 2003).”
Deriving optical metrics of coastal phytoplankton biomass from ocean colour (2012, unknown): “Additionally, studies have shown that aph(λ) is strongly related to phytoplankton size (Bricaud et al., 2004; Bricaud & Stramski, 1990; Ciotti et al., 2002; Hirata et al., 2008), which in turn, can be related to trophic state or phytoplankton functional type (Chisholm, 1992; Cullen et al.”