Journal: PLoS ONE
Article Title: Empirical estimation of marine phytoplankton assemblages in coastal and offshore areas using an in situ multi-wavelength excitation fluorometer
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257258
Figure Lengend Snippet: MEX, TChla MEX TChla are abbreviations of in situ multi-wavelength excitation fluorometer, total chlorophyll a concentration estimated with MEX and , total chlorophyll a concentration estimated with the pigment analyses. Comparisons were performed in nine chemotaxonomic phytoplankton groups (chlorophytes, cryptophytes, cyanophytes, diatoms, dinoflagellates, haptophyte type 3 haptophyte type 4, prasinophytes, and prochlorophytes). The MEX-based proportion was estimated based on the database ( U 1), which only removed the target data from U . The thin dased and the bold lines denote the 1:1 line and the linear regression line, respectively. The gray lines indicated 95% confident intervals of the differences between MEX-based and pigment-based proportions.
Article Snippet: Wang et al. [ ] indicated that the default conversion method from the fluorescence to the phytoplankton assemblages using the MEX software (MFL software, JFE-Advantech, Hyogo, Japan) is limited in the field studies and that site-specific methods are required for better estimations.
Techniques: In Situ, Concentration Assay