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Primary Productivity
Primary productivity is a term used to describe the rate at which plants and other photosynthetic organisms produce organic compounds in an ecosystem. There are two aspects of primary productivity:
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Since oxygen is one of the most easily measured products of both photosynthesis and respiration, a good way to gauge primary productivity in an aquatic ecosystem is to measure dissolved oxygen. We cannot measure gross productivity directly because respiration, which uses up oxygen and organic compounds, is always occurring simultaneously with photosynthesis but we can measure it indirectly. Let's see how to do this. | |||||||||
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