Percent Dry Weight (Biomass) Increases for
300, 600 and 900 ppm Increases in the Air's CO2 Concentration:


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Emiliania huxleyi Marine Coccolithophores


Statistics
 
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm
 Number of Results
3
 
 
 Arithmetic Mean
45%
 
 
 Standard Error
34.7%
 
 

Individual Experiment Results

Journal References

Experimental Conditions
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm

Fiorini et al. (2011)

Single-cell microalgae grown in laboratory batch cultures in their haploid (H) life stage, while they were immersed in filtered seawater maintained in equilibrium with air of different CO2 concentrations
2%

 

 

Fiorini et al. (2011)

Single-cell microalgae grown in laboratory batch cultures in their diploid (D) life stage, while they were immersed in filtered seawater maintained in equilibrium with air of different CO2 concentrations
3%

 

 

Iglesias-Rodriguez et al. (2008)

The increase in average coccolithophore mass over the past 220 years derived from a sediment core extracted from the subpolar North Atlantic
130%

 

 

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