NON‐STEADY STATE DYNAMICS OF ALGAL POPULATION GROWTH: EXPERIMENTS WITH TWO CHLOROPHYTES<sup>1</sup>

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<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>The relations among dissolved phosphorus, cell quota of phosphorus, and population growth rate were determined for two Chlorophytes, <jats:italic>Chlorella</jats:italic> sp. and <jats:italic>Scenedesmus quadricauda</jats:italic> var. <jats:italic>longispina</jats:italic> (Chod.) G. M. Smith, in two types of non‐steady state continuous culture. One of these types had relatively smooth transitions between growth under different degrees of phosphorus limitation. Under these conditions, two equations often applied to growth kinetics in steady state cultures were found to apply to non‐steady state growth. Monad's equation described the relation between dissolved phosphorus concentration and population growth rate, and Droop's equation described the relation between cell quota and population growth rate. The second type of culture received phosphorus only as periodic pulses, leading to sharp changes in dissolved phosphorus, cell quota, and growth rate. A simulation model based on Droop's equation described much of the observed dynamics of cell numbers and quotas in these cultures. Droop's equation could not be convincingly fitted directly to the data, however, due to its incorrect prediction of an immediate growth response to phosphorus pulses. A third relation, predicting that saturated rates of phosphorus uptake would depend on the recent nutrient history of the cells as reflected by the cell quota, was not supported.</jats:p>

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