Redfield ratio in coccolithophores

[hiba@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Ali Talal Haidar)]

        Dear Paleonetters,

        I am looking for literature (or any kind of information) on C:N:P
ratios in living coccolithophores (either estimate on the whole comunity or
on any species of them).

        We know that Redfield ratio (106C : 16N : 1P by atoms) was
originally (Redfield et al., 1963) determined on the "plankton" (as the
average of zooplankton and phytoplankton CNP ratios).

        Thanks, Ali.


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Ali Talal Haidar

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