biomass

バイオマス

植物や最近まで生きていた生物に由来し、エネルギーを生み出せる材料。

やさしい英語で： Material from plants or recently living things that can be used to produce energy.

• The power station burns biomass.
• Wood waste can be used as biomass fuel.
• They grow crops to supply the biomass industry.

よく使う表現： biomass fuel, biomass energy, burn biomass

生物量

ある地域や集団に含まれる生物を全部合わせた重さ。

やさしい英語で： The combined weight of living things in a particular area or group.

• The forest has a large biomass.
• Scientists estimated the total biomass of fish in the lake.
• Drought reduced the grassland’s biomass.

よく使う表現： forest biomass, total biomass, fish biomass

生物量

一つの生物、またはその一部の全体の重さ。

やさしい英語で： The total weight of a living thing or one of its parts.

• We measured the biomass of each plant.
• The cell’s biomass increased as it grew.
• This method estimates the biomass of a single organism.

よく使う表現： cell biomass, total biomass, measure biomass