Fraction of all microbial cells that inhabit the deep biosphere (accounting for a third to half of all living biomass carbon on Earth)

Value 94 % of all microbial cells
Organism Biosphere
Reference Braun S et al., Size and Carbon Content of Sub-seafloor Microbial Cells at Landsort Deep, Baltic Sea. Front Microbiol. 2016 Aug 31 7: 1375. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01375 p.7 right column top paragraphPubMed ID27630628
Primary Source Whitman, W. B., Coleman, D. C., and Wiebe, W. J. (1998). Prokaryotes: the unseen majority. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95, 6578–6583. doi: 10.1073/pnas.95.12.6578PubMed ID9618454
Comments P.7 right column top paragraph: "The first global extrapolation indicated that 94% of all microbial cells inhabit the deep biosphere and account for a third to half of all living biomass carbon on Earth (primary source)."
Entered by Uri M
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