. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 27.

Published in final edited form as: Plant J. 2015 Feb 18;82(3):523–531. doi: 10.1111/tpj.12780

Table 1.

Biomass production of various algal species in an outdoor setting compared to average reported lipid content

Species	Closed system production (g L⁻¹ day⁻¹)	Open system production (g L⁻¹ day⁻¹)	Lipid content (nutrient-replete, % dry weight)
Scenedesmus dimorphus	0.095	0.090	26
Chlorella vulgaris	0.047	0.035	25
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii	0.078	0.015	21
Arthrospira platensis	0.040	0.018	13
Anabaena sp.	0.055	–	5
Porphyridium purpureum	0.074	0.036	11
Nannochloropsis salina	0.043	0.028	27
Dunaliella tertiolecta	0.039	0.031	15
Phaeodactylum tricornutum	0.021	–	21

Biomass production data from Schoepp et al. (2014) and lipid content from Griffiths and Harrison (2009).