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… Biofuels, after all, are the product of diverting existing biomass production (food crops such as corn and soy, wastes, and cellulosic biomass from grasses, forests etc…) into new processes and … liquid biofuels from a wider range of non-food biomass is perhaps of greater long-term significance. As …

… using an inter-annual vegetation index as an indicator of biomass production decline or increase found that land … and land cover types. Anthropogenic declines in biomass productivity were found on 25% of croplands and … vegetation. The study also identified improvement of biomass productivity on 2.7% of the global land mass (Le et …

… of the following: productivity, soil, vegetation cover, biomass, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and environmental … Dynamics (LPD) dataset that refers to the standing biomass productivity, and is derived from phenological … strictly refers to the overall above-ground vegetation biomass productivity. This is not conceptually the same as, …

… specifying the unit to be maintained (‘stock, species, or biomass’), nor the precise level at which it is to be … not allow fishing for Aleutian Basin pollock unless its biomass is determined to exceed 1.67 million metric tonnes … are not permitted in less than 200 m depth). The spawning biomass of hake was estimated at 1.3 million tonnes and the …

… aquaculture conforms to this definition: as wildstock biomass falls, the cost of capture fisheries rises and demand … despite under-production by 80,000 tonnes of exploitable biomass, aquaculture is indispensable. Aquaculture is a … be defined as the maximum number of animals or amount of biomass that can be supported by a given ecosystem for a …

… (in summary): According to current knowledge, soils are biomass produc- tion systems; substance transformation … biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. Soil produces biomass; it acts as a filtering, buffering and transformation …

… devoid of vegetation suitable for natural fuel so woody biomass harvesting is prevalent as the main form of fuel. … a sharp decline in the vegetation cover ratio have reduced biomass accumulation and firewood resources. Cutting of … desert shrub by farmers for firewood has further destroyed biomass and worsened the LD. 97 The rate of increase of air …

… and cooperate in the conservation and enhancement of biomass, forests and oceans, as well as other terrestrial, …

… the production of all other ecosystem services, including biomass production, soil formation, nutrient cycling and …