For the purpose of ecology, peat is not biomass. Biomass is living things. Trees. Bugs. Fish. Microbiota. Not peat. Why is this important is that living things

For the purpose of ecology, peat is not biomass. Biomass is living things. Trees. Bugs. Fish. Microbiota. Not peat. Why is this important is that living things form a carbon cycle of which our atmosphere is a part. Peat is sequestered for an unknown amount of time and is at the very least temporarily removed from the cycle.