Change Date: 5 May 2023, 12:05 p.m.
mole_productivity_of_biomass_expressed_as_carbon_by_prokaryotes mol m-3 [MLM3] "Production of carbon" means the production of biomass expressed as the number of mols of carbon which it contains. "Productivity" means production per unit volume. The phrase "expressed_as" is used in the construction A_expressed_as_B, where B is a chemical constituent of A. It means that the quantity indicated by the standard name is calculated solely with respect to the B contained in A, neglecting all other chemical constituents of A. "Prokaryotes” are all Bacteria and Archaea excluding photosynthetic cyanobacteria such as Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus or other separately named components of the procaryotic population.