Biomass (ecology)
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Biomass is the total mass of living biological organisms in a given area or ecosystem at a specific time. Biomass may refer to the species biomass, which is the mass of one or more species, or to comm
The total global live biomass has been estimated at 550 billion tonnes carbon, most of which is found in forests.
Shallow aquatic environments, such as wetlands, estuaries and coral reefs, can be as productive as forests, generating similar amounts of new biomass each year on a given area.
Prochlorococcus, an influential bacterium
Globally, terrestrial and oceanic habitats produce a similar amount of new biomass each year (56.4 billion tonnes C terrestrial and 48.5 billion tonnes C oceanic).
Protist
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A protist or protoctist is any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, land plant, or fungus. Protists do not form a natural group, or clade, but are a paraphyletic group encompassing the entire eu
Biomass (ecology)
…convert inorganic carbon into protoplasm. They are then consumed by zooplankton that range in size from a few micrometers in diameter in the case of protistan microzooplankton to macroscopic gelatinous and crustacean zooplankton. Zooplankton comprise the second level in the food chain, and includes small…
Protist collage 2
Cladococcus, a radiolarian
Naegleria, an amoeboflagellate
Gephyrocapsa, a coccoid alga