Hydrology: Current Research

Mukherjee B

Publications

• Research Article
  Modelling Changes in the Carbon Chemistry of the Aquatic Media during Photosynthesis
  Author(s): Mukherjee BMukherjee B
  
  Mathematical modeling of systems requires a considerable knowledge about the subsystems, and the various rate processes and transfer coefficients that control the system. One such system involves changes in the carbon chemistry of the aquatic media during photosynthesis because inorganic carbon is a potentially limiting factor in the aquatic media. We used two artificial systems: an aquarium and a pond system with Hydrilla as the major photosynthetic organism to study the changes in the carbon chemistry and the carbon species taken up. The study depicts that carbon dioxide is the major molecular species taken up and in its absence; free carbon dioxide is released initially from the dissociation of bicarbonate ions rather than its direct use. The rate of entry cannot be accounted directly by diffusion alone because of the pH gradients in and out of the cell, and therefore carbon concen.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7587.1000250

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