Guest Druid Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 I am learning about steady state systems and have a problem which is really stumping me. The Question Taken from John Hartes "Consider a Spherical Cow" is as follows: Consider a forest in which the residence time for carbon (ignoring respiratory pathways) in the living trees is 15 years, in leaves is 1 year, and in woody parts (including roots) is 100 years. (a) What is the ratio of leaf biomass to wood biomass? (b) What fraction of total Net Primary Productivity (NPP) does wood productivity constitute? Biomass = NPP * Residence Time Any assistance would be greatly appreciated in figuring out the steps to this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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