How to calculate biomass percentage of algae?

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Vipul Swarup Bhatnagar

Well if you wanna see the amount of biomass without moisture

you will be needing halogen lamp moisture analyzer

then consider taking 1gm of biomass on glass fiber paper with moisture (M1)

then dry it to the stable weight (M2)

Then (M2-M1/M2) * 100

Ricardo Hideo Taniwaki

Algae biomass can be referred through biovolume or chlorophyll-a per area (ex: mg chl-a m2).

See:

Structure, biomass, production and depth distribution of periphyton on artificial substratum in shallow lakes with contrasting nutrient concentrations