Abstract
An incubator is described which automatically simulates fluctuations of natural irradiance by coupling a photocell to a lightbank in the ship's laboratory. Design details are given.
Primary production; Irradiance; Laboratory equipment; Automated recording; Simulators
NOTA
A laboratory incubator equipped with facilities to automatically simulate natural irradiance
Ludwig AletseeI; Marcus E. M. BaumannII
IAbteilung für Systematik und Geobotanik der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule Aachen (Worringer Weg 1, 5100 Aachen, F.R.G.)
IIAlfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research Am Handelshafen 12 D-2850 Bremerhaven, F.R.G
ABSTRACT
An incubator is described which automatically simulates fluctuations of natural irradiance by coupling a photocell to a lightbank in the ship's laboratory. Design details are given.
Descriptors: Primary production, Irradiance, Laboratory equipment, Automated recording, Simulators.
Descritores: Produção primária, Irradiação, Equipamento de laboratório, Registro automatizado, Simuladores.
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Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Jo Blatt who carried out and performed the electronic wiring and drew the figures. We gratefully announce the financial support by the Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft (DFG), grant Al 45/5-1. We appreciate the critical comments by David Thomas. Further details especially concerning the recording of the data on electronic carriers by computer and the reproduction of the natural proceeding of the daylight may be obtained from the authors.
(Manuscript received 31 July 1991, accepted 12 November 1991)
- GARGAS, E. 1975. A manual for phytoplankton primary production studies in the Baltic BMB publications No. 2, 88.
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
15 May 2012 -
Date of issue
1991
History
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Accepted
12 Nov 1991 -
Received
31 July 1991
