Fraction of earth's surface covered by cold ecosystems (Arctic & Antarctica, non-polar cryosphere, and deep oceans)

Value 70 %
Organism Biosphere
Reference Marcelo Baeza, Jennifer Alcaíno, Víctor Cifuentes, Benedetta Turchetti & Pietro Buzzini, Cold-Active Enzymes from Cold-Adapted Yeasts, Biotechnology of Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi, edited by Andriy A. Sibirny, Springer International Publishing AG 2017, chapter 10 pp 297-324 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58829-2_10 p.298 top paragraph
Primary Source Cavicchioli R, Tortsen T (2000) Extremophilic. In: Lederberg J (ed) Encyclopaedia of microbiology, vol 2, 2nd edn. Academic, London, pp 317–337 AND Buzzini P, Margesin R (2014a) Cold-adapted yeasts: biodiversity, adaptation strategies and biotechnological significance. Springer, Heidelberg
Comments P.298 top paragraph: "Cold ecosystems represent one of the largest biospheres of the globe: Arctic and Antarctica, non-polar cryosphere, and deep oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface (primary sources)."
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