Biomass
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1. Environmental concerns - energy - renewable energy - fossil fuels - alternatives.
Plant material used to derive biofuel from - for example by fermentation - or used directly as a fuel itself.
2. Environmental concerns - carbon sequestration.
Plant material that stores sequestered carbon, reducing the quantity of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
3. Environmental concerns - ecosystems.
The total mass of living organisms - usually measured in tonnes - in a given environment.
Biomass can be measured for individual species, or in total.