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Fraction of carbon fixed photosynthetically by aquatic organisms that is respired

Range	10-60 %
Organism	Biosphere
Reference	Ilana Berman-Frank and Zvy Dubinsky, Balanced Growth in Aquatic Plants: Myth or Reality? Phytoplankton use the imbalance between carbon assimilation and biomass production to their strategic advantage, BioScience, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Jan., 1999), pp. 29-37
Primary Source	Geider RJ. 1992. Respiration: Taxation with- out representation. Pages 333-360 in Falkowski PG, Woodhead AD, eds. Pri- mary Productivity and Biogeochemical Cycles in the Sea. New York: Plenum Press.
Entered by	Uri M
ID	104194