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Biomass
Biomass is the total mass of living organisms in a given area or volume.
Ecological efficiency
Ecological efficiency refers to the percentage of energy that is transferred from one trophic level to the next in an ecosystem.
Gross productivity
Gross Productivity (GP) refers to the total amount of biomass produced by an organism or a trophic level over a given period of time.
Net productivity
Net Productivity (NP) is the amount of biomass remaining after the losses due to cellular respiration have been subtracted from the gross productivity.
Sustainlable yield
The sustainable yield is the maximum amount of water that can be withdrawn from the system without reducing its capacity to regenerate.
Trophic level
A trophic level is the feeding position of an organism within a food chain or web, based on how it obtains its energy and nutrients.