• DOI:10.1016/0304-3770(86)90086-0
Corpus ID: 85266283

Estimation of net primary productivity of intertidal seaweeds — limitations and latent problems

@article{Murthy1986EstimationON,
  title={Estimation of net primary productivity of intertidal seaweeds — limitations and latent problems},
  author={M. Murthy and T. Ramakrishna and G. Babu and Y. Rao},
  journal={Aquatic Botany},
  year={1986},
  volume={23},
  pages={383-387}
}

M. Murthy, T. Ramakrishna, +1 author Y. Rao

Published 1986

Environmental Science

Aquatic Botany

Abstract Estimation of net primary production (NPP) of intertidal seaweeds by the harvest method is beset with a number of problems, prominent among which is the lack of a method to quantify precisely the dead and decaying parts, as these two fractions do not accumulate in situ, but get washed away and cast ashore. In the light of this, while presenting the results of NPP of 3 intertidal seaweeds from Veraval on the western coast of India, the merits and demerits of different methods adopted… CONTINUE READING

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