Primary production of the biosphere: Integrating terrestrial and oceanic components

Science

Volumn 281, Issue 5374, 1998, Pages 237-240

  Field, Christopher B ^a   Behrenfeld, Michael J ^b   Randerson, James T ^a,c   Falkowski, Paul ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON STORAGE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; BIOSPHERE; GEOGRAPHY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

EID: 0032503986     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5374.237     Document Type: Article

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57. The CASA modeling activity has been supported through NASA's Earth Observing System program as part of an Interdisciplinary Science grant to P. J. Sellers and H. A. Mooney and a grant from the Western Regional Center of the Department of Energy National Institute for Global Environmental Change to C.B.F. The VGPM activity has been supported through NASA grants to P.F. and M.J.B. J.T.R. was supported by a NASA Earth System Science Graduate Student Fellowship. Thanks to A. Lowry, D. Kolber, Z. Kolber, M. Thompson, and C. Malmström for assistance in developing and exercising the models. This is Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Plant Biology publication 1279.