Effects of growth rate, cell size, motion, and elemental stoichiometry on nutrient transport kinetics
Fig 2
Relationship between cell size and the resultant value of KG.
Organism configurations are shown representing a cellular carbon density that is fixed (C150), and accords with a generic protist phytoplankton (Cprot), or with a diatom (Cdiat). More details are given in Table 1. The green layer is for non-motile (non-swimming or non-sedimenting) cells; the pink layer is for motile (non-diatom protist; Eq 12 in Methods), or sedimenting (diatoms; Eq 13 in Methods) cells. Note that the KG scale is logarithmic.