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biomass(standing crop) The total mass of all living organisms (producers, consumers, and decomposers) or of a particular set (e.g. species), present in an ecosystem or at a particular trophic level in a food-chain, and usually expressed as dry weight or, more accurately, as the carbon, nitrogen, or calorific content per unit area.

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