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Primary production in aquatic environments
de Vooys, C.G.N. (1979). Primary production in aquatic environments, in: Bolin, B. et al. (Ed.) The global carbon cycle. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series, 13: pp. 259-292
In: Bolin, B. et al. (Ed.) (1979). The global carbon cycle. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series, 13. John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, New York, Brisbane, Toronto. ISBN 0471997102. xxx, 491 pp., more
In: Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series. Island Press: Washington. ISSN 1998-0477; e-ISSN 1998-0485, more

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    Aquatic communities > Plankton > Phytoplankton
    Biological production > Primary production

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  • de Vooys, C.G.N.

Abstract
    Total annual primary production of aquatic ecosystems, comprising phytoplankton, coastal macrophytes, coral reefs, and freshwater production, is estimated at 45.8 x 1015 g C. A critical evaluation of methods used for measuring primary photoplankton productivity is given, from which it is concluded that the estimate for primary production by phytoplankton must be adjusted to yield an annual production rate of 43.5 x 1015 g C. Phytoplankton production appears to be 9 5% of total · primary production in the oceans. The small areas of coastal macrophytes, salt marshes, and estuaries contribute 3.18% of the global aquatic primary production. Also, coral reefs, although very productive, occupy too small an area to contribute significantly to aquatic primary production - only 0.65%. On the basis of present knowledge of phytoplankton physiology and evaluation of radiocarbon measurement of primary production, higher yields of oceanic phytoplankton production can be expected in the future.

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