Primary Producers in the Sea

Project Title: Primary Producers in the Sea

Date: 2015

Principal Investigator: Valiela, I.

Abstract: We use the term “primary producers” to include a large variety of organisms that manufacture organic compounds, by either photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Photosynthetic primary producers use light-derived energy to convert carbon dioxide into organic carbon compounds that are integrated into cells. Read full text…In Marine Ecological Processes (pp. 3-34). Springer New York. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-387-79070-1_1