LIFE SCIENCE

OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE

ECOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is biomass?
A
The amount of energy in an ecosystem
B
The total amount of living tissue
C
The amount of dirt
D
The amount of water
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -biomass, the weight or total quantity of living organisms of one animal or plant species (species biomass) or of all the species in a community (community biomass), commonly referred to a unit area or volume of habitat. The weight or quantity of organisms in an area at a given moment is the standing crop.

Detailed explanation-2: -Biomass is defined as the total amount of living material present in an ecosystem at a given period. It can consider all the organic matters of an ecosystem, or can only consider the living tissues.

Detailed explanation-3: -Biomass, in ecological terms, is the sum total mass of living organisms such as plants, animals, in a specific unit of area or volume of habitat. In ecological terms, biomass refers to the various types of living organisms in a particular environment or ecosystem.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pyramids of biomass show the total amount of living tissue at each trophic level. A pyramid of numbers shows the relative numbers of organisms at different trophic levels.

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