ENERGETICS. “There seems to be a minimum energy cost of 1.5 mol ATP per mol CaCO3 deposited. This involves a photon cost of 1.71 photons per CaCO3 with cyclic electron flow generating ATP, i.e. 11% of the cost of photosynthetic growth…the calcification cost is 19% that of photosynthetic growth.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022