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P.828 left column top paragraph: "The leaf surface habitat is vast: vegetation modelling [ref 2 BNID 115366] gives an estimated global leaf area of 508,630,100 km^2, which corresponds to 1,017,260,200 km^2 of upper and lower leaf surface, an area approximately twice as great as the land surface. Assuming that there are on average 10^6−10^7 bacteria per square cm of leaf surface [primary source], the global bacterial population present in the phyllosphere could comprise up to 10^26 cells." Primary source p.1875 left column top paragraph: "Bacteria are by far the most numerous colonists of leaves, often being found in numbers averaging 10^6 to 10^7 cells/cm^2 (up to 10^8 cells/g) of leaf (refs 1, 7, 41 of primary source)." |