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Article #4257Re: Global warming/Atmospheric CO2 (was: Ocean Warming Trend)
From: gage stephen
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 23:52
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 23:52
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According to "Plant Physiology" by Salisbury and Ross, approximately one third of the photosynthetic primary production occurs in the oceans. This corresponds to an estimated 55.0 dosvsunix filesystem helpnotes mbox postrules pwadvice rules scratch secretmail sitenotes synopsis tnlediting tnllogin usenetfacts usenetslang usingunix 10^9 metric tons of organic matter with an empirical formula close to CH20, so represents about 22 billion tons of carbon fixed in the oceans due to photosynthesis. . Hope this helps. . Steve
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!uvm-gen!tnl!steveg From: steveg@tnl.UUCP (gage stephen) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Global warming/Atmospheric CO2 (was: Ocean Warming Trend) Summary: marine contribution to photosynthetic production Message-ID: <206@tnl.UUCP> Date: 27 Apr 89 23:52:23 GMT References: <1673@ccnysci.UUCP> <833@yunccn.UUCP> Organization: The Northern Lights, Burlington VT Lines: 11