prokaryote abundance in top 1m of soil in forest

Value 4e+7 cells/gram of soil
Organism Biosphere
Reference Whitman WB, Coleman DC, Wiebe WJ. Prokaryotes: the unseen majority. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A > v.95(12) Jun 9, 1998 pp.6578-6583PubMed ID9618454
Primary Source Richter D D, Markewitz D. Bioscience. 1995 45:600–609.
Entered by Mike Springer
ID 100531