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Marine Net Primary Production

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Part of the book series: Handbook of Global Environmental Pollution ((EGEP,volume 1))

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Marine net primary production by phytoplankton fuels the marine food web. This chapter summarizes the primary controls on marine net primary production, recent temporal patterns in regional and global net primary production, and projections for net marine primary production over the next century.

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Acknowledgments

The work is funded by the Canada Research Chair and NSERC Discovery programs. I thank A. J. Irwin for his assistance with Fig. 15.1 and manuscript preparation.

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  1. Environmental Science Program, Mt Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada

    Zoe V. Finkel

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Finkel, Z.V. (2014). Marine Net Primary Production. In: Freedman, B. (eds) Global Environmental Change. Handbook of Global Environmental Pollution, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5784-4_42

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