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compensation point
noun
- botany the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide at which the rate of carbon dioxide uptake by a photosynthesizing plant is exactly balanced by its rate of carbon dioxide release in respiration and photorespiration
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The CO2 compensation point, says Kasting, is the crucial limit at which the net rate of plant respiration exceeds that of oxygenic photosynthesis.
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