Lecture 5

A. Overview - link

• biochemical molecules and components
• processes
• net output
• regulation
• optimization
• adaptation to the environment

Biochemistry of photosynthesis

Output - description

• minutes to hours scale
• factors
  • light
  • CO2
  • temp
  • nutrient status
• saturable response to light
  • Pmax & Ik

Models

• Blackman - pvsi
• Tanh
• others - link
  • Poisson dist
• inhibition with all lines

Productivity vs. depth

• curves - assignment
• integration of incident light with depth
  • incident light calculation
• Ik vs mixed layer, thermocline, deeper (new figure)