Pyramids of biomass

Pyramids of biomass

Biomass is the mass of any living or recently dead organism in grams or kilograms.
Organisms can gain energy from consuming biomass and turn this energy into their body tissue (their own biomass).
Dead organisms are first dried in an oven before biomass is recorded as different organisms contain different amounts of water.
Pyramids of biomass can be constructed to represent the relative amount of biomass in each level of a food chain.
Trophic level 1 is at the bottom of the pyramid.

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