Carbon Balance and Management

Table 1 Normative productivity of major vegetation zones

From: Normative productivity of the global vegetation

Biome code	Normative NPP version
	1.5	1.6	1.7	1.8	1.9	1.10	1.11	1.12	1.13
3	792	795	796	793	788	787	787	787	792
4	812	816	818	815	813	815	814	815	817
6	64	63	62	62	62	63	62	62	60
7	318	319	319	319	318	320	318	318	321
8	995	1001	1002	999	1002	1008	1009	1008	1013
10	646	648	649	647	646	645	645	644	648
13	538	540	541	542	540	542	539	540	541
14	210	208	208	209	209	207	208	208	212
15	395	395	396	395	393	395	392	392	396
27	139	138	139	139	138	139	138	138	140
36	324	319	321	321	323	323	324	324	327
42	116	114	114	115	114	114	112	112	113

Units: gC m^-2 y^-1 (100 gC m^-2 y^-1 = tC ha^-1 y^-1). Biome codes: 42 – tundra, 14 – larch forests, 36 – needle-leaf forests, 13 – summer-green broad-leaved forests, 4 – evergreen broad-leaved forests, 8 – tropical rainforests, 6 – deserts, 27 – semi-desert scrubs, 7 – shrublands, 15 – grasslands, 10 – subhumid woodlands, 3 – raingreen forests.

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