Do some types of plants/trees give off more oxygen than others that are the same size?
Oxygen released is definetly not proportional too the size of the plant in some cases. Take into account that different plants will flower at different times. During flowering a plants metabolism increases drastically. In fact, it can increase metabolism so much that the plant temperature will be drastically higher than the outside temperature.
So imagine there is two plants of the same size. One plant is in the flowering stage of growth and the other is in the vegetative state of growth. The flowering plant will have a higher rate of metabolism, thus leading to a higher rate of oxygen release.
oxygen is released due to photosynthesis. However, plants will also use oxygen when they burn sugar for energy. So, it’s not as important how much oxygen a plant releases but rather what the net increase of oxygen is. The net increase of oxygen for a plant is directly related to it’s mass. Plants that are growing faster are releasing more oxygen than plants that are growing slower (cellulose is just polymerized sugar that is formed through photosynthesis). Rather than measuring the amount of oxygen released it’d be much easier to check the mass of the plant since that’s directly proportional to the oxygen released.
