Total number of cells in freshwaters and saline lakes

Value 2.3E+26 Cells Range: Table - link Cells
Organism prokaryote
Reference William B. Whitman,*† David C. Coleman,‡ and William J. Wiebe. Prokaryotes: The unseen majority. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 June 9 95(12): 6578–6583. p.6579 table 1 p.6578 right column 3rd paragraphPubMed ID9618454
Comments "There are fewer estimates of the number of prokaryotes in freshwaters and saline lakes (5). Given an average density of 10^6 cells/ml, the total number of cells in freshwaters and saline lakes is 2.3?10^26. This value is three orders of magnitude below the numbers of prokaryotes in seawater."
Entered by Uri M
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