Productivity in the California Chaparral
The Average Gross Production, or the rate at which an ecosystem's producers capture and store a given amount of chemical energy as biomass in a given length of time, of shrubland’s across California is about 600 (g m-2 a-1). The Net Primary Productivity of the California shrubland is 224.09 (g m-2 a -1); and the Secondary Productivity rate is closely estimated to 8.5 (10^6kg/ m).
Other terms relative to the chaparral biome:
- Net productivity: he amount of energy trapped in organic matter during a specified interval at a given trophic level less that lost by the respiration of the organisms at that level.
- Primary Productivity: he production of organic compounds from atmospheric or aquatic carbon dioxide, principally through the process of photosynthesis
- Secondary Productivity: The rate at which consumers convert the chemical energy of their food into their own biomass
- Net Primary Productivity: The remaining fixed energy
Other terms relative to the chaparral biome:
- Net productivity: he amount of energy trapped in organic matter during a specified interval at a given trophic level less that lost by the respiration of the organisms at that level.
- Primary Productivity: he production of organic compounds from atmospheric or aquatic carbon dioxide, principally through the process of photosynthesis
- Secondary Productivity: The rate at which consumers convert the chemical energy of their food into their own biomass
- Net Primary Productivity: The remaining fixed energy
