Assignment #19 Primary Productivity Investigation: Day 1
Answer all of the following questions to the best of your ability in complete sentences whenever possible. Your answers should be in your lab notebook or at least on another piece of paper.
1a. After summarizing what we did today, write a paragraph explaining the purpose of our actions in class. What do you think was the purpose of what we did?
1b. What do you think we’ll be doing tomorrow? Support your answer.
2. How are net and gross productivity different?
3. Why are ecologists primarily concerned with net productivity?
4. Compare the net primary productivities of ecosystems that we have discussed. What inferences can you make? Why might there be differences in the productivity of different ecosystems?
5a. Complete the table.
5b. What would a productivity to respiration ratio of 1 mean?
5c. If the forest and prairie ecosystems are unmanaged by humans, whereas the alfalfa filed is managed for agricultural purposes. Based on the data in the table, what inferences about the differences between agricultural and unmanaged ecosystems can you make?
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