"On paper, it's seven times more productive than terrestrial plants, it grows faster and the amount of oil exceeds that in terrestrial plants," says Adam Powell from the University of Swansea in Wales, which is backing a European research and development project, Enalgae.
It reproduces in hours, which means it is potentially far more productive than terrestrial plants.
In recognition of the promise for productive interaction between terrestrial and planetary geomorphologists, the 45th annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium (BGS) focused on Planetary Geomorphology.
The Amazonian rainforest covers over 6 million square kilometres (Walter 1973; Myster 2009) and is the most productive (Daly and Prance 1989) and diverse terrestrial ecosystem on earth, containing more than 10% of its species (Pires and Prance 1985).
Some Chlorella are also highly productive in starch, and thus potential substitutes of starch-rich terrestrial plants for bioethanol production.
Thus, superficial contact may occur frequently between bats and terrestrial mammals (including humans), but may be unlikely to result in a productive infection unless L. noctivagans and P. subflavus variants are involved (the increased infectivity hypothesis).
It is complex, and it is also highly effective: C4 plants include many of our most important and productive crops (maize, sorghum, sugarcane, millet) and are responsible for around 25% of global terrestrial photosynthesis (Still et al., 2003).
It is generally recognized that downstream transport of terrestrial nutrients into marine estuaries produces one of the world's most productive habitats, but recent investigations suggest that the reverse flow, from marine to terrestrial habitats, may also be exceptionally important in structuring highly diverse coastal ecosystems [ 1].
Warmly terrestrial and chillingly otherworldly at once, it's a testament to the strangely productive alchemy that can happen when you put two producers with such, uh, disparate interests in the same room. Colin Joyce.
