primary productivity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprimaryandproductivity
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primary
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.mər.i/us/ˈpraɪ.mer.i/
more important than anything ...
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productivity
noun[U]
uk/ˌprɒd.ʌkˈtɪv.ə.ti/us/ˌproʊ.dəkˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
the rate at which a company or country makes goods, usually judged in connection with the number of people and the amount of materials necessary to produce ...
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Additionally, the model calculatesprimaryproductivityand dissolved oxygen distributions and evolution for scenarios with sufficiently thin sea-ice cover.
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Their potential forprimaryproductivityand their metabolic versatility would present an important part in nutrient cycling.
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The rate at which nutrients are recycled influences the netprimaryproductivityof a forest.
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Thus, the epiphytes greatly increase theprimaryproductivityof this ecosystem.
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Eutrophic or nutrient-rich marine environments are often characterized by a highprimaryproductivityof phytoplankton.
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It may reflect significant changes of characters of oceanic circulation and inprimaryproductivity.
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In systems of lowprimaryproductivity, a single stable plant-herbivore equilibrium occurs, whenever primary productivity is sufficient to support a herbivore population.
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Thus, we expect to find a positive relationship betweenprimaryproductivityand ocelot density across its distributional range.
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Globally, natural systems, primarily dominated by perennials, had greater mean netprimaryproductivity than the anthropogenic systems that replaced them14.
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The ecological ramifications of the results of theprimaryproductivitydata is of great interest.
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Furthermore, both mechanisms have the potential to stimulateprimaryproductivity.
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Theprimaryproductivityis limited by the short growing season when sunlight is available.
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The disturbance is rapidly controlled, and the system comes back to its normal nutrient economy andprimaryproductivity.
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The biologist will find new methods of in situprimaryproductivitymeasurements and microelectrode technologies for measuring oxygen fluxes.
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A heavy reliance on remote sensing data (initially in a single watershed) permitted the delineation of agro-ecological zones to determine land use/cover,primaryproductivity, dynamics of changes and seasonality.
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While most species were herbivorous, and an estimated 10 % of the total dailyprimaryproductivitywas consumed by the ciliates, the percentage consumption varied among algal taxa.
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Ecosystem-level patterns ofprimaryproductivityand herbivory in terrestrial habitats.
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We find thatprimaryproductivityis lower than today by 500 to 4000 times for the methanogen-based ecosystem and by 40 to 200 times for the anoxygenic phototroph-based ecosystem.
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