primary biomass

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• Biomass (ecology) — Biomass, in ecology, is the mass of living biological organisms in a given area or ecosystem at a given time. Biomass can refer to species biomass , which is the mass of one or more species, or to community biomass , which is the mass of all… …   Wikipedia

• Biomass — refers to living and recently dead biological material that can be used as fuel or for industrial production. Most commonly, biomass refers to plant matter grown to generate electricity or produce biofuel, but it also includes plant or animal… …   Wikipedia

• Primary producers — are those organisms in an ecosystem that produce biomass from inorganic compounds (autotrophs). In almost all cases these are photosynthetically active organisms (plants, cyanobacteria and a number of other unicellular organisms; see article on… …   Wikipedia

• Primary production — For other uses, see Primary production (economics). Global oceanic and terrestrial photoautotroph abundance, from September 1997 to August 2000. As an estimate of autotroph biomass, it is only a rough indicator of primary production potential,… …   Wikipedia

• biomass — /buy oh mas /, n. 1. Ecol. the amount of living matter in a given habitat, expressed either as the weight of organisms per unit area or as the volume of organisms per unit volume of habitat. 2. Energy. organic matter, esp. plant matter, that can… …   Universalium

• Primary energy consumption —   Consumption of primary energy. (Energy sources that are produced from other energy sources, e.g., coal coke from coal, are included in primary energy consumption only if their energy content has not already been included as part of the original …   Energy terms

• Primary energy production —   Production of primary energy. The U.S. Energy Information Administration includes the following in U.S. primary energy production: coal production, waste coal supplied, and coal refuse recovery; crude oil and lease condensate production;… …   Energy terms

• primary producer — Photoautotrophic and chemoautotrophic organisms that incorporate carbon dioxide into organic carbon and thus provide new biomass for the ecosystem …   Dictionary of microbiology

• Bioconversion of biomass to mixed alcohol fuels — The bioconversion of biomass to mixed alcohol fuels can be accomplished using the MixAlco process. Through bioconversion of biomass to a mixed alcohol fuel, more energy from the biomass will end up as liquid fuels than in converting biomass to… …   Wikipedia

• North Blyth Biomass Project — Promotional rendering of the planned station …   Wikipedia

• Milltown Biomass-to-Energy Power Station — Milltown Biomass to Energy Generating Station Location near Milltown, Indiana Status Active Commission date Unit 1: 2009 Owner(s) Liberty Green Renewables …   Wikipedia