Plasmatic resistance and rate of respiration and photosynthesis of Zostera marina at different salinities and temperatures |
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Authors: | R Biebl C P McRoy |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Plant Physiology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria;(2) Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska; College, Alaska, USA |
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Abstract: | Zostera marina L. was studied at the Izembek Lagoon, Alaska Peninsula. Two morphologically different forms, tidepool and subtidal, can be distinguished. Both show a high tolerance to different salinities and temperatures. The plasmatic resistance was found in a range of distilled H2O up to 3.0 seawater (24 h) and between-6° and 34°C (12 h). Within these resistance limits, the photosynthesis, which has its maximum in normal (1.0) seawater, decreases nearly to zero not only in distilled H2O but even in 2.0 seawater, and increases with the temperature in the tidepool form up to 35°C, but in the subtidal form up to 30°C only. At higher temperatures photosynthesis declines sharply in both forms. Respiration has its minimum in distilled H2O and at 0°C and increases with increasing salinity and temperature.Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. K. Mothes, Halle, Germany (DDR) on the occasion of his 70th birthday. |
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