Question

The rate at which an ecosystem's producers convert solar energy to chemical energy stored in biomass is called ______.

Answer 1

The rate at  which an ecosystem's producers convert solar energy to chemical energy stored in biomass is primary productivity. Biomass is the total amount of living inorganic material in an ecosystem. In an ecosystem producers play a role of using carbon dioxide in the atmosphere together with the energy from the sun to make sugar molecules.

Answer 2

Gross primary productivity refers to the rate at which an ecosystem's producers convert solar energy to chemical energy stored in biomass

Gross primary productivity is also known as GPP. It refers to the net amount of energy which is produced by the primary energy producers of the ecosystem in a certain area in a specific period of time.

Further Explanation

Gross primary productivity tends to state total productivity, which means, it is the total amount of energy that is produced by green plants. GPP relies primarily on the chlorophyll content of the green plant.

Another important thing is that gross primary productivity has no other factors that can reduce its rate because it is a continuous process of productivity. GPP is also the addition of the rate of organic matter that is formed by the energy producers and the rate of respiration of energy producers.

However, in ecology, productivity refers to the rate in which energy is added to the body of organisms in form of biomas. Biomas also refers to the amount of matter that is stored in the body of organisms. The units of productivity may take either biomas or energy and it can be defined for any of the trophic level.

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