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).
Krill
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Krill are small and exclusively marine crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea, found in all of the world's oceans. The name "krill" comes from the Norwegian word krill, meaning "small fry of fish", whi
Biomass (ecology)
…gelatinous and crustacean zooplankton. Zooplankton comprise the second level in the food chain, and includes small crustaceans, such as copepods and krill, and the larva of fish, squid, lobsters and crabs. In turn, small zooplankton are consumed by both larger predatory zooplankters, such as krill, and…
Meganyctiphanes norvegica 2
Krill anatomy explained, using Euphausia superba as a model
The gills of krill are externally visible
A nauplius of Euphausia pacifica hatching, emerging backwards from the egg