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biomass

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Biomass refers strictly speaking to the total weight of all the living things in an ecosystem. However, it has come to refer to the amount of plant and crop material that could be produced in an ecosystem for making biofuels and other raw materials used in industry, for example. (Source: WRIGHT)

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http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/aliss_scripts/concept/883

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