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total production of biosphere [1 record]

Record 1 2010-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
CONT

... since this task will require husbanding a fraction significantly greater than one-tenth of the total biosphere's production flow, it must be understood and accepted from the outset that large dislocations within wild environments are unavoidable ...

OBS

They estimate that humans show directly control from 25 to 40 percent of the total primary production of the planet's biosphere.

OBS

About 50% of total primary production in the biosphere occurs in the sea, carried out by phytoplankton ...

Key term(s)
  • total production of the planet's biosphere
  • total production in the biosphere

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
OBS

[...] les populations animales produisent de l'ordre de 110 millions de tonnes de méthane/an. Les espèces domestiques en produisent de l'ordre de 70 à 75 millions de tonnes, soit environ 1/5 de la production de CH4 de la biosphère [...] On connaît aujourd'hui suffisamment bien la production de CH4 par les différentes espèces animales pour pouvoir estimer leur contribution probable à la production totale de ce gaz dans la biosphère.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
OBS

Biosfera o biósfera.

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