Biomass

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-003289",
  "term": "Biomass",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. The amount, or weight, of a species, or group of biological organisms, within a specific volume or area of an ecosystem.\n\n2. The amount of a living species, expressed as a concentration or weight per unit area.\n\n3. The amount of living matter in a given area, often refers to vegetation.\n\n4. The total mass (or weight) of plants and animals in a particular area; can be a particular group of plants or animals or a single species. This measurement can be used instead of counting individuals to help determine abundances in an area.\n\n5. All of the living material in a given area; often refers to vegetation.\n\n6. Material that comes from living things, including trees, crops, grasses, and animals and animal waste. Some kinds of biomass, such as wood and biofuels, can be burned to produce energy.\n\n7. Materials that are biological in origin, including organic material (both living and dead) from above and below ground, for example, trees, crops, grasses, tree litter, roots, and animals and animal waste.\n\n8. Total dry weight of all living organisms that can be supported at each tropic level in a food chain. Also, materials that are biological in origin, including organic material (both living and dead) from above and below ground, for example, trees, crops, grasses, tree litter, roots, and animals and animal waste.\n\n9. All of the living material in a given area; often refers to vegetation (EPA 1992, 4).\n\n10. Plant materials and animal waste. [40 CFR 60.41a (CFR 2013)]\n\n11. Biomass-based solid fuel that is not a solid waste. This includes, but is not limited to, wood residue and wood products (e.g., trees, tree stumps, tree limbs, bark, lumber, sawdust, sander dust, chips, scraps, slabs, millings, and shavings); animal manure, including litter and other bedding materials; vegetative agricultural and silvicultural materials, such as logging residues (slash), nut and grain hulls and chaff (e.g., almond, walnut, peanut, rice, and wheat), bagasse, orchard prunings, corn stalks, coffee bean hulls and grounds. This definition of biomass is not intended to suggest that these materials are or are not solid waste. Biomass subcategory includes any boiler that burns any biomass and is not in the coal subcategory.\n\n12. Non-fossilized and biodegradable organic material originating from plants, animals or micro-organisms, including products, by-products, residues and waste from agriculture, forestry and related industries as well as the non-fossilized and biodegradable organic fractions of industrial and municipal wastes, including gases and liquids recovered from the decomposition of non-fossilized and biodegradable organic material.\n\n13. Any organic material grown for the purpose of being converted to energy;(2) Any organic byproduct of agriculture that can be converted into energy; or(3) Any material that can be converted into energy and is nonmerchantable for other purposes, that is segregated from other nonmerchantable material, and that is;(i) A forest-related organic resource, including mill residues, precommercial thinnings, slash, brush, or byproduct from conversion of trees to merchantable material; or(ii) A wood material, including pallets, crates, dunnage, manufacturing and construction materials (other than pressure-treated, chemically-treated, or painted wood products), and landscape or right-of-way tree trimmings. [40 CFR 97.102 (CFR 2013)] [40 CFR 97.602 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 97.202 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 97.302 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 97.502 (CFR 2013)] [40 CFR 97.402 (CFR 2013)][40 CFR 97.702 (CFR 2013)] [40 CFR 96.102 (CFR 2018)] [40 CFR 96.202 (CFR 2018)]\n\n14. The amount of a living species, expressed as a concentration or weight per unit area or volume.\n\n15. The amount of living matter in a given area or volume.\n\n16. The total amount of organic matter (living or recently living material) present in an organism, population, ecosystem or given volume or area\n\n17. Plant materials and animal wastes used especially as a source of fuel.\n\n18. Any material or fuel produced by biological processes of living organisms, including organic non-fossil material of biological origin (e.g., plant material), biofuels, biogenic gas, and biogenic waste.\n\n19. Biological material derived from living or recently living organisms.",
  "subject": "Water",
  "references": [
    "Sediment Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) Glossary",
    "Chesapeake Bay Glossary",
    "Superfund for Students and Teachers Glossary",
    "Ecological Risk Assessment Glossary of Terms",
    "Terms of Environment",
    "Student's Guide to Global Climate Change",
    "Glossary of Climate Change Terms",
    "Greenhouse Gas Emissions",
    "Environmental Modeling and Assessment Program (EMAP) Master Glossary",
    "40 CFR 60.41Da (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 63.11237 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 98.6 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 96.302 (CFR 2018)",
    "NSTEPS Online Glossary; N-STEPS Online Glossary of Terms",
    "Glossary of Technical Terms: Office of Underground Storage Tanks",
    "Original Source: https://agclass.nal.usda.gov/mtwdk.exe?k=glossary&l=60&w=1670&n=1&s=5&t=2",
    "AgSTAR Handbook Glossary",
    "Green Power Markets Glossary",
    "Aquatic Resources Awareness Course for Real Estate Appraisers Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/biomass/"
}