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creators_name: Sasaki, A.
creators_name: Mizuno, A.N.
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creators_orcid: 0000-0003-3582-5865
title: Partitioning light spectra: adaptive stratification of phytobenthic communities in Antarctic lakes
ispublished: pub
divisions: prog_eep
keywords: Communality buildup; Photosynthesis; Photoinhibition; Phytobenthic mat; Antarctic freshwater lake
abstract: Competition for light has an important influence for phototrophic community structures, especially, along the perpendicular axis. Here we develop a mathematical model for perpendicular community buildup of phototrophic species that differ in light absorption spectra and compete for incident light. Details of photon capture efficiencies and the roles of photoinhibition were taken into consideration to define species’ fitness. Our theory showed that, if there is strong light irradiation due, for example, to the high transparency of the water in freshwater lakes in Antarctica, protective absorption of light should occur near the surface and photosynthetic absorption should gradually increase with depth. These results were then validated in comparison with observed vertical distributions of pigments in phytobenthic-mat communities from Antarctic lakes.
date: 2017-04-27
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier
id_number: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.04.022
creators_browse_id: 267
full_text_status: none
publication: Journal of Theoretical Biology
volume: 424
pagerange: 1-10
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1095-8541
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fp7_project: no
fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
citation:   Sasaki, A. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/267.html> ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3582-5865 <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3582-5865> & Mizuno, A.N.  (2017).  Partitioning light spectra: adaptive stratification of phytobenthic communities in Antarctic lakes.   Journal of Theoretical Biology 424 1-10. 10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.04.022 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.04.022>.