Glossary B

The Environmental Glossary. Letter B +++ Popular Articles: 'Background extinction', 'Blood Products', 'Biological Integrity'

A Biological Survey or Biosurvey is collecting, processing, and analyzing a representative portion of the resident aquatic Community to determine its structural and/or functional characteristics.

Deutsch: Biologische Behandlung / Español: Tratamiento Biológico / Português: Tratamento Biológico / Français: Traitement Biologique / Italiano: Trattamento Biologico /

A Biological Treatment is a treatment technology that uses bacteria to consume organic waste.

A Biologically Effective Dose is the amount of a deposited or absorbed compound reaching the Cells or target sites where adverse effect occur, or where the chemical interacts with a membrane.

Biologicals are Vaccines, cultures and other preparations made from living organisms and their products, intended for use in diagnosing, immunizing, or treating humans or animals, or

Deutsch: Biologie / Español: Biología / Português: Biologia / Français: Biologie / Italiano: Biologia

Biology in the environmental context refers to the scientific study of living organisms and their interactions with the natural world. It plays a critical role in understanding ecosystems, biodiversity, and the impact of human activities on the environment. Environmental biology encompasses various subfields and research areas, contributing valuable knowledge for conservation, ecological restoration, and sustainable environmental management.

A biomarker is Biochemical, physiological, or histological Indicators of either Exposure to or effects of xenobiotic chemicals at the suborganismal or organismal level (Huggett et al.

A Biomass is all of the living material in a given area; often refers to vegetation.

(1) the amount of living matter in an area, including plants, large animals and insects;

(2) plant materials and animal waste used as fuel.

A Biomass energy is Energy produced by combusting Biomass materials such as wood. The carbon dioxide emitted from burning Biomass will not increase total atmospheric carbon dioxide if

A Biome is Entire Community of living organisms in a single major ecological area. (See: biotic community.)

A Biomonitoring is 1. The use of living organisms to test the suitability of effluents for Discharge into receiving waters and to test the quality of such waters downstream from the discharge.

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