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Biomass in sentence

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That means that in terms of biomass, insects are more abundant than we are, and we're not on a planet of men, but we're on a planet of insects.
It's basically a measure of how many tigers, toads, ticks or whatever on average of biomass of various species are around.
And just watch the change in colors in India, China, Europe, sub-Saharan Africa as we move on and consume global biomass at a rate which is actually not going to be able to sustain us.
But that doesn't help because there were very few species and volume of biomass there in the first place.
We have to do something with this biomass that we have.
If you were to suck all the water out of the ocean, this is what you'd be left behind with, and that's the biomass of life on the sea floor.
Now what we see is huge biomass towards the poles and not much biomass in between.
But you can imagine the biomass that represents.
There could be 10 times more fish biomass here than previously thought.
So the column actually had another very nice feature, and that is the algae settle in the column, and this allowed us to accumulate the algal biomass in a context where we could easily harvest it.
And all the components are there which are now in common parlance, in our vocabulary, you know, 30-odd years later: wind energy, recycling, biomass, solar cells.
Obviously the wind tunnel had a place, but the ability now with the computer to explore, to plan, to see how that would work in terms of the forces of nature: natural ventilation, to be able to model the chamber below, and to look at biomass.
So at that point, if we can go back to the other computer, we were starting to think about how you integrate the rest of the biomass of the planet into the Internet, and we went to the best possible person I can think of, which is Vint Cerf, who is one of the founders who gave us the Internet.
How does this tiny amount of biomass produce as much as all the plants on land?
Changes in biomass burning, in smoke, in aerosol particles, all of those things change the climate.
How do organic aerosols from biomass burning, which you can see in the red dots, intersect with clouds and rainfall patterns?
And more than in Haiti, this produces really smoky fires, and this is where you see the health impacts of cooking with cow dung and biomass as a fuel.
What we did was we found what were the locally available sources of biomass.
In order to reduce cost and our own carbon footprint, we started utilizing local biomass as soil amender and fertilizers.
Three quarters of that is in the temperate zone, and just one quarter is in the tropics, but this one quarter, one billion hectares, holds most of the biodiversity, and very importantly, 50 percent of the living biomass, the carbon.
Another example of quantum mechanics in biology is quantum coherence, in one of the most important processes in biology, photosynthesis: plants and bacteria taking sunlight, and using that energy to create biomass.
We mix some local biomass available around, which can help soil become more porous.
They feed on the biomass we have mixed in the soil, so all they have to do is eat and multiply.
This decayed biomass forms humus, which is food for the forest.
Hydropower, geothermal, wind, solar, biomass.
And they do one or more of three things: replace existing fossil fuel-based energy generation with clean, renewable sources; reduce consumption through technological efficiency and behavior change; and to biosequester carbon in our plants' biomass and soil through a process we all learn in grade school, the magic of photosynthesis.
This is drawdown in action every year, as carbon is removed from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, which converts carbon dioxide to plants' biomass and soil organic carbon.
Most of the biomass in the ocean is made out of creatures like this.
And when the end of the growing season comes, the plant dies and decomposes, and then all that work they did to suck out the CO2 from the atmosphere and make carbon-based biomass is now basically going right back up in the atmosphere as CO2.
They took up one quarter of the mammalian biomass.
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