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- Title
Primary production of the biosphere: integrating terrestrial and oceanic components
- Authors
Field CB; Behrenfeld MJ; Randerson JT; Falkowski P
- Abstract
Integrating conceptually similar models of the growth of marine and terrestrial primary producers yielded an estimated global net primary production (NPP) of 104.9 petagrams of carbon per year, with roughly equal contributions from land and oceans. Approaches based on satellite indices of absorbed solar radiation indicate marked heterogeneity in NPP for both land and oceans, reflecting the influence of physical and ecological processes. The spatial and temporal distributions of ocean NPP are consistent with primary limitation by light, nutrients, and temperature. On land, water limitation imposes additional constraints. On land and ocean, progressive changes in NPP can result in altered carbon storage, although contrasts in mechanisms of carbon storage and rates of organic matter turnover result in a range of relations between carbon storage and changes in NPP.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 1998, Vol 281, Issue 5374, p237
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.281.5374.237