Primary production
- Pronunciation
- /PRIMARY pro-duc-shun/
- Category
- Ecology
- Singular
- Primary production
- Plural
- Primary productions
Definition
The rate at which biomass is produced by plants, expressed on a per unit area basis.
Etymology
From 'primary' meaning first and 'production' meaning the process of creating something.
Example
The primary production of an ecosystem can be measured by the amount of biomass produced by photosynthetic plants.