The Monomolecular and Rectangular Hyperbola as Empirical Models of the Response of Photosynthetic Rate to Photon Flux Density, with Applications to Three Veronica Species

Abstract

This paper discusses and formalises the use of the monomolecular function as an empirical model of the photosynthetic rate/PFD relationship. We shall treat this model, and the rectangular hyperbola in a three-parameter form which describes net photosynthesis and allows dark respiration and the light compensation point to be estimated