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Wangpraseurt D, Jacques SL, Petrie T, et al. Monte Carlo Modeling of Photon Propagation Reveals Highly Scattering Coral Tissue. Front Plant Sci. 2016;7:1404doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01404.
Wangpraseurt, D., Jacques, S. L., Petrie, T., & Kühl, M. (2016). Monte Carlo Modeling of Photon Propagation Reveals Highly Scattering Coral Tissue. Frontiers in plant science, 71404. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.01404
Wangpraseurt, Daniel, et al. "Monte Carlo Modeling of Photon Propagation Reveals Highly Scattering Coral Tissue." Frontiers in plant science vol. 7 (2016): 1404. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.01404
Wangpraseurt D, Jacques SL, Petrie T, Kühl M. Monte Carlo Modeling of Photon Propagation Reveals Highly Scattering Coral Tissue. Front Plant Sci. 2016 Sep 21;7:1404. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01404. eCollection 2016. PMID: 27708657; PMCID: PMC5030289.
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Front Plant Sci. 2016 Sep 21;7:1404. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01404. eCollection 2016.

Monte Carlo Modeling of Photon Propagation Reveals Highly Scattering Coral Tissue.

Frontiers in plant science

Daniel Wangpraseurt, Steven L Jacques, Tracy Petrie, Michael Kühl

Affiliations

  1. Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology Sydney, SydneyNSW, Australia; Marine Biological Section, Department of Biology, University of CopenhagenHelsingør, Denmark.
  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland OR, USA.

PMID: 27708657 PMCID: PMC5030289 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01404

Abstract

Corals are very efficient at using solar radiation, with photosynthetic quantum efficiencies approaching theoretical limits. Here, we investigated potential mechanisms underlying such outstanding photosynthetic performance through extracting inherent optical properties of the living coral tissue and skeleton in a massive faviid coral. Using Monte Carlo simulations developed for medical tissue optics it is shown that for the investigated faviid coral, the coral tissue was a strongly light scattering matrix with a reduced scattering coefficient of μ

Keywords: Monte Carlo simulation; algae; biophysics; coral optics; coral tissue; microorganisms; photosynthesis; symbiosis

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