C:N:P ratios of benthic marine plants1

1983/05/01 by M. J. Atkinson, S. V. Smith, Stephen V. Smith · 7 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Marine and coastal plant biology

paper · pdf · doi:10.4319/lo.1983.28.3.0568

Abstract

The median C:N:P atomic ratio of benthic marine macroalgae and seagrasses is about 550:30:1. Benthic plants are much more depleted in P and less in N, relative to C, than phytoplankton. The amount of nutrients required to support a particular level of net production is much lower for benthic marine plants than it is for phytoplankton.

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