Multiple Choice
An ecologist studying productivity in a sample of grasses measures gross primary productivity as 1000 kcal/m2/yr and autotrophic respiration as 100 kcal/m2/yr.Based on these calculations,the net primary productivity would be
A) 10 kcal/m2/yr.
B) 900 kcal/m2/yr.
C) 1100 kcal/m2/yr.
D) 10,000 kcal/m2/yr.
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