Sentences with phrase «animal biomass»

In fact, ants are so numerous that it is believed that they are responsible for around 12 to 20 percent of the total animal biomass on Earth.

As an ecologist, I would like to comment on a statement on the page: «A producing farm undoubtedly has a higher animal biomass than virgin forest as well as a higher photosynthetic rate.

The human species, therefore, whilst comprising only half of 1 per cent of the global animal biomass, consumes a significant fraction of everything the Earth produces.

Arthropods make up the majority of animal biomass on the tundra, far outweighing birds or mammals.

To as a composite plant / animal biomass striving to maximum our total volume, it behooves us to be aware of how we can regulate our external environment, not just by avoidance of the problem areas, but by making changes in the background parameters that are outside of the optimum ranges for the whole biomass, not just in our dwellings.

Here's why: A cattle pasture, with cattle, would have animal biomass that far exceeds tropical virgin forest of comparable size, but one could hardly say that is a makes it a better or more sustainable use of the land.

Animal biomass is not a relevant yardstick of sustainability (although I don't know if that's the point that was being made, necessarily).