Biomass
All of the living material in a given area; often refers to vegetation. Biomass is a renewable fuel source that can be used efficiently to produce both heat and power.
Biomass is a substance obtained from a living organism. Since biomasses are easily biodegradable, scientists are looking for biomasses, which can compete with plastics.
Biomass: organic materials, including wood by-products and agricultural wastes that can be burned to produce energy or converted into a gas and used for fuel (Source: U.S. Department of Energy) ...
Biomass Energy
Biomass is a fancy name for material from plants and animals. Some kinds of biomass can be burned to produce energy. One common example is wood.
Biomass (B):
Biomass refers to living or recently-dead organic material that can be used as an energy source, excludes organic material that has been transformed by geological processes (such as coal or petroleum).
biomass: Biomass is the amount of any plant or animal matter that grows and can be used to make energy.
botanist: A botanist is someone who studies plants.
biomass - (1) the amount of living matter in an area, including plants, large animals and insects; (2) plant materials and animal waste used as fuel.
Biomass - An energy resource derived from organic matter such as wood, agricultural waste and other living cell material.
Biomass
All the living material in a given area often refers to vegetation. Algal biomass is often indicative of the trophic status of a water body.
By-product ...
Biomass Burning - the process of oxidizing living material. This process produces atmospheric particulates as well as the production of greenhouse and reactive tropospheric gases.
Biomass
Biomass is a natural resource. It refers to materials derived from photosynthesis which are not fossilised such as forest and mill residues, agricultural crops and wastes, etc
Biosolids ...
Biomass: the weight per unit area of living material
Biotic: the living components of an organism"s environment
Bioturbation: the disturbance of sedimentary deposits by living organisms ...
Biomass energy is energy in the form of gaseous and liquid fuels, heat and electricity derived from organic matter of plant and animal origin.
biomass fuel emissions = emissions from biomass fuel burning which has been recently grown, considered carbon neutral; other GhG from biomass fuel combustion are considered net emissions ...
Biomass: The total amount of living organisms in a given area.
Biosphere: The global ecosystem; that part of the earth and atmosphere capable of supporting living organisms.
Biomass
A source of fuel made from living and recently-dead plant materials such as wood, leaves and the biodegradable part of industrial and municipal waste.
Biosphere ...
Biomass
the amount of organic material of biological origin in a given area or volume
Bioremediation
a treatment that enhances the ability of naturally occurring or cultured microorganisms to degrade organic pollutants in soil ...
biomass
Total amount of biotic material, usually expressed per unit surface area or volume, in a medium such as water.
Material produced by the growth of micro-organisms, plants or animals.
biomass 1) The total weight of matter (living and dead) incorporated into a quantity of organisms. 2) The amount of living matter in a given habitat that may be supported through an established ecosystem.
Biomass
The total weight of a group or stock of living organisms (e.g. fish, plankton) or of some defined fraction of it (e.g. spawners) in an area, at a particular time.
Bycatch ...
Biomass
The amount of living matter, in the form of organisms, present in a particular habitat, usually expressed as weight per unit area.
Biosphere ...
Biomass Energy
Biomass has been an important source of energy ever since people first began burning wood to cook food and warm themselves against the winter chill.
B biomass
Definition (english only)
The biodegradable fraction of products, waste and residues from agriculture (including vegetal and animal substances), forestry and related industries, ...
Biomass
Material that is derived from living, or recently living biological organisms.
Biomass
Living or recently-dead organic material that can be used as an energy source or in industrial production; excludes organic material that has been transformed by geological processes.
Brownfield ...
All living biomass above the soil including stem, stump, branches, bark, seeds, and foliage. Source: IPCC
Accession ...
biochar: biomass burned in a kiln using an airless burning technique that locks in the carbon instead of releasing it. The biochar is then buried and will return nutrients to the soil and store carbon for more than 100 years.
Biofuel A solid, liquid or gaseous fuel such as methane produced from renewable biological resources such as plant biomass and treated municipal and industrial waste.
carbon-based resources The recoverable fossil fuel (coal, gas, crude oils, oil shale, and tar sands) and biomass that can be used in fuel production and consumption.
P/B the ratio of the annual production to the mean annual standing stock, or biomass, of an organism; the annual turnover or replacement number, times per year ...
Secondary productivity The rate at which biomass is produced per unit area by heterotrophic organisms. Seed bank The population of viable dormant seeds that accumulates in and on soil and in sediments under water.
By means of photosynthesis, they use solar energy to convert water, nutrients, and carbon dioxide into usable biomass. Plant growth can be limited by a number of factors, including soil fertility, water, temperature, and carbon dioxide concentration.
Renewable Energy - There are many forms of renewable energy from geothermal to biomass to wind and of course solar power.
Net Primary Productivity (NPP) is the sum of the above-ground and below-ground plant biomass produced per unit area. Measures of NPP are labor intensive, slow, and expensive, but NPP can be used for comparison of site quality for similar species.
For example, the total economic value for a stretch of coastline would likely include factors for recreational value, fish and biomass production value, temperature mitigation value, housing price value, transportation value, ...
Carbon Dioxide: A naturally occurring gas, and also a by-product of burning fossil fuels and biomass, as well as land-use changes and other industrial processes.
Biofuel - Type of renewable resource that is produced from biomass, a recently living element such as animals, plantlife or wood. It can provide energy from unexpected sources, such as the gas from landfills.
Renewable resource: Natural resource (e.g., tree biomass, fresh water, fish) whose supply can essentially never be exhausted, usually because it is continuously produced.
Oxygen dependent biological process that serves to convert soluble organic matter to solid biomass, that is removable by gravity or filtration.
Active groups ...
Biological Treatment: The use of bacteria or other microbial organisms to break down toxic
organic materials into carbon dioxide and water. Biomass: the amount of living matter in a given area or volume.
Attributes related to the instantaneous physical state of an ecosystem; examples include species population density, species richness or evenness, and standing crop biomass.
Source: Terms of the Environment
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Phytotreatment: The cultivation of specialized plants that absorb specific contaminants from the soil through their roots or foliage. This reduces the concentration of contaminants in the soil, but incorporates them into biomasses that may be ...
Renewable Energy: Energy supplied from natural, relatively inexhaustible sources including the wind, sunlight, geothermal heat, the tide, plant products or biomass.
Its central role in living cells makes it an excellent indicator of the presence of living material in water. A measure of ATP therefore provides a sensitive and rapid estimate of Biomass.
The amount of water applied for irrigation of a crop that is taken up by the plant biomass and which is transpired by the plant and that evaporates. The CIR is used consumptively and does not return to the hydrological system for further use.
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