| Front | dry/fresh material mass |
|---|---|
| Back | scientists calc dry mass as when calcing mass of fresh material, you have to discount water content, and as water levels vary in organisms, it leads to unreliable results, problem with calcing dry mass is that you have to kill organism and you have small sample which is not representative |
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