The total mass of living matter in a given unit area

Usage examples of biomass.

After he was caught for the third time hauling up endangered groundfish in forbidden biomass nets, he was told his license was forfeit.

If I do not return, then Captain Kirk will have to decide whether or not to open fire on the green biomass surrounding New Ibadan in an attempt to save your city-or to buy the city enough time for other vessels to get here and evacuate your people.

Because the Ark contains thousands of times more biomass proportionate to size than does the Earth, the gas accumulation will be enormous.

It will have productive biomass and intensive agriculture, aesthetic diversion, and absolute environmental control.

Swifter of pace but lesser in bulk, other creatures inhabiting the sea frolicked around these masters of biomass conversion.

Whatever had cost these pyramid builders their lives had not been berserkers, for the rest of the native biomass had not been extinguished with them.

They were often neglected in favor of massive sea beasts or flashy predators, but in terms of biomass, gram by gram, insects could overwhelm.

Only the biomass, in its soft, shapeless dermal, looked as though it might have been made by contemporary technology.

Although the big stasis field that surrounded the raiders was being clearly and continuously tracked and plotted by the central biomass, there was still no clue as to where on the Krystaleit perimeter the first blow would fall.

The Pattern Juggler biomass scurried and squirmed to evade the track of the shadow, and the peculiar purposefulness of the motion reminded Naqi of an octopus she had seen in the terrestrial habitats aquarium on Umingmaktok, squeezing its way through impossibly small gaps in the glass prison of its tank.

The biomass sensed the approach of the probes and rearranged itself so that they passed through with little obstruction, even those scything lines that reached into the water.

Part of it was that several years of drought and famine had exhausted the resources of the developing nations, and part of it was that with the widespread growth of fusion power, hydrogen-, methane-, and alcohol-fuels, plus assorted other sources like biomass, geothermal, wind-power, ocean current-turbines, and so onall in addition to solar energythe world's appetite for oil had dropped dramatically.

A series of bar charts and other displays appeared around the globe, showing the state of the forests, the sea and land biomass, temperatures, atmospheric gases, and other information.

Now Simon would be part of the carbon cycle, food for bacteria and crabs and then sandpipers and gulls, thus slowly melting into the biomass under the dome.

In sheer bulk of biomass, organisms without brains or even without central nervous systems far outnumber those possessing these desirable features.