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Net primary production (NPP) is lower than gross primary production (GPP) because not all of the energy captured through photosynthesis is available for growth and reproduction. Some of the energy is used by plants for their own metabolic processes, such as respiration. Additionally, a portion of the energy is lost as heat during these metabolic processes. Therefore, NPP represents the amount of energy available for consumption by herbivores and higher trophic levels.
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Gross Primary Productivity- Total amount of chemical energy stored by photosynthesis. Net Primary Productivity- Remaining energy, which is available to the consumers as food.
Primary production is the production of organic compounds from atmospheric or aquatic carbon dioxide. It may occur through the process of photosynthesis, using light as a source of energy, or chemosynthesis, using the oxidation or reduction of chemical compounds as a source of energy. Almost all life on earth is directly or indirectly reliant on primary production. The organisms responsible for primary production are known as primary producers or autotrophs, and form the base of the food chain. In terrestrial ecoregions, these are mainly plants, while in aquatic ecoregions algae are primarily responsible. Primary production is distinguished as either net or gross, the former accounting for losses to processes such as cellular respiration, the latter not.
GPP (gross primary production) minus cellular respiration.
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Gross primary production consists of the amount of light energy that is converted to chemical energy by photosynthesis per unit of time. This chemical energy is going to two places-- respiration and growth of new biomass. Net primary production omits the energy used in respiration... just the energy going to new plant growth. Mathematically: (R = respiration) NPP = GPR - R
Gross primary production consists of the amount of light energy that is converted to chemical energy by photosynthesis per unit of time. This chemical energy is going to two places-- respiration and growth of new biomass. Net primary production omits the energy used in respiration... just the energy going to new plant growth. Mathematically: (R = respiration) NPP = GPR - R
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Net primary production (NPP) is lower than gross primary production (GPP) because not all of the energy captured through photosynthesis is available for growth and reproduction. Some of the energy is used by plants for their own metabolic processes, such as respiration. Additionally, a portion of the energy is lost as heat during these metabolic processes. Therefore, NPP represents the amount of energy available for consumption by herbivores and higher trophic levels.
net
Gross
The rate at which an ecosystems producers covert solar energy into chemical energy (in the form of biomass). To Solve : GPP = NPP + R (R - Respiration)
primary productivity is defined as the amount of . organic matter produced per unit area over a time period by plant during photosynthesis. and gross primary productivity minus respiration losses is the net primary productivity .
Gross Primary Productivity- Total amount of chemical energy stored by photosynthesis. Net Primary Productivity- Remaining energy, which is available to the consumers as food.