Euan D. Reavie

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How do I reliably quantify picoplankton from lake water samples?

I am looking to quantitatively characterize the picoplankton (cell size range 0.2 - 2 µm) from lake water samples. A few questions here have dealt with the dual-filtration approach, using 2 and...

23 July 2020 9,970 0 View

What is required to publish diatom florae and new species? Rejected, so now what?

I recently submitted two lengthy accounts of Great Lakes diatoms to a journal for plant and algal taxonomy, with the hopeful goal that they would be published as “monographs”. These books were...

16 October 2017 3,717 7 View

Without algae, what can cause a spike in chlorophyll a?

Let's assume no malfunction of our YSI sonde, as we are very sure of that. Recently we had spiking chlorophyll a measurements in water from Duluth-Superior Harbor (western Lake Superior), ranging...

01 October 2015 5,947 6 View

What does "dark-adapted" really mean?

I have acquired the use of a Water PAM to measure Fv/Fm in concentrated samples of phytoplankton. In the instrument guide and throughout the published literature it is recommended to measure Fv/Fm...

05 April 2015 2,002 9 View