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C:N:P ratios of benthic marine plants1

Limnology and Oceanography · 1983 · Vol. 28(3) · pp. 568–574

M. J. Atkinson(University of Western Australia)Stephen V. Smith✉(University of Western Australia)

Abstract

The median C:N:P atomic ratio of benthic marine macroalgae and seagrasses is about 550:30:1. Benthic plants are much more depleted in P and less in N, relative to C, than phytoplankton. The amount of nutrients required to support a particular level of net production is much lower for benthic marine plants than it is for phytoplankton.

Marine and coastal plant biologyBenthic zonePhytoplanktonNutrientEnvironmental scienceOceanographyBiologyEcologyGeology

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