The decrease in diurnal oxygen production in Elodea under the influence of high geomagnetic variability: the role of light, temperature and atmospheric pressure

" The data from these experiments support the hypothesis that increased geomagnetic variability affects metabolic process. Photosynthetic activity was shown to decrease during increased variability in the geomagnetic field. The data showed significant difference in the phase relationship of peak light and peak oxygen on days of higher compared with lower geomagnetic field variability independent of temperature, season and atmospheric pressure. This supports the hypothesis of high geomagnetic field variability, as a damping factor in oxygen production in Elodea. However, the smaller dataset from 1996 does not fully support the latter hypothesis, as a non-significant decrease in O/WL was shown. Some possible explanations for this difference have been suggested, involving specific features of the geomagnetic frequency spectrum and resonance with enzyme time constants in photosynthetic pathways. This could be confirmed by further experimentatio" {Credits 1}

" These findings support an already established body of evidence, in many fields of research, including public health, suggesting an interaction of geomagnetic field with metabolic process." {Credits 1}

{Credits 1} 🎪 Davies, E. The decrease in diurnal oxygen production in Elodea under the influence of high geomagnetic variability: the role of light, temperature and atmospheric pressure. Int J Biometeorol 67, 821–834 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-023-02457-9. © 2023 The author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License..