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Question
What is primary productivity?
Solution
Primary productivity:
Primary productivity is the rate of generation of biomass in an ecosystem that is expressed in units of mass per unit surface (or volume) per unit time i.e. g/m2/day.
The mass unit may relate to dry matter or to the mass of carbon generated.
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