sanctus Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 At a museum I read that ants make out 10% of the bimass and termits as well 10%. The question is what is the bio-mass? Only animals or as well the plants? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 Both. :naughty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass Biomass is organic non-fossil material, collectively. In other words, 'biomass' describes the mass of all biological organisms, dead or alive, excluding biological mass that has been transformed by geological processes into substances such as coal or petroleum. The most successful animal of the earth, in terms of biomass, is the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, with a biomass of probably over 500 million tons, roughly twice the total biomass of humans. The entire earth contains about 75 billion tons of biomass. Humans comprise about 250 million tons (0.33%), domesticated animals about 700 million (1.0%), and crops about 2 billion tons or 2.7% of the Earth's biomass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctus Posted May 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 thanks, I'm not yet used to simply go to look on wikipedia...it's a habit to take though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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