Table 3.

Model of light penetration with associated equation and a list of parameters.

Model	Equation	Parameters	Citation
Beer-Lambert	${\text{I}=\text{I}}_0\cdot {\text{e}}^{-{\text{k}}_{\text{a}}\cdot \left(\text{X}+{\text{k}}_{\text{bg}}\right)\cdot \text{z}}$	I ≡ light intensity [μE·m-2·s-1] z ≡ depth [m] I0 ≡ incident light intensity [μE·m-2·s-1] X ≡ biomass concentration [g·m-3] kbg ≡ background turbidity [g·m-3] ka ≡ attenuation coefficient [m2·g-1]	(Beer, 1852)