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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total plant biomass on Earth (≈80% of total biomass) | Biosphere | ≈450 | gigatons of carbon (Gt C) | 115270 | Bar-On YM, Phillips R... |
| Present day geothermal energy produced by earth | Biosphere | ~0.0292 | W/m^2 | 100603 | Jorg Overmann and Ferran... |
| Time scales in the evolution of life on earth | Biosphere | Table - link | N/A | 103786 | David L. Nelson, Michael... |
| Number of lightning bolts striking the earth | Biosphere | >1.4×10^9 | lightning bolts/year | 113587 | Olivia P. Judson, The... |
| Decrease in wildlife on Earth between 1970 and 2012 | Biosphere | ≤58 | % | 117265 | Ceballos G, Ehrlich PR... |
| Wavelength of solar electromagnetic radiation reaching the earth surface | Biosphere | 300-4000 | nm | 104570 | Jones HG, Archer N, Rotenberg... |
| Total archaea biomass on Earth (predominantly located in deep subsurface environments) | Biosphere | ≈7 | gigatons of carbon (Gt C) | 115280 | Bar-On YM, Phillips R... |
| Estimated number of viral particles on earth | Biosphere | 1E+31 | viral particles | 110706 | Minot S, Bryson A, Chehoud C... |
| Global amount of RuBisCO - most abundant protein on Earth | Biosphere | 4e+13 | grams | 103827 | R.J. Ellis, 1979, The... |
| Time since the appearance of life on Earth | Biosphere | >3.5 | Ga | 107057 | Payne JL et al., Two-phase... |
| Solar power arriving to earth from the sun (worldwide average) | Biosphere | 175 | 10^15 W (petaW) | 100943 | Karl TR, Trenberth KE.... |
| Milestones in the evolution of the Earth and its biosphere | Biosphere | Table - link | Years before present | 109596 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| Fraction of solar energy striking the Earth that is converted to biomass | Biosphere | 0.2 | % | 104625 | Robert E. Blakenship... |
| Estimated number of insects on earth at a given moment | Insect | 1E+18 | Unitless | 104961 | Bert Holldobler and Edward... |
| Carbon pools in the major resevoirs on Earth | Biosphere | Table - link | 10^15 g | 108695 | aquatic photosynthesis... |
| Population size (most numerous undomesticated bird on earth) | Red-billed quelea Quelea quelea | ~1.5 | billion individuals | 117284 | Bennett CE et al., The... |
| Currently (as of 2011) catalogued and predicted total number of species on Earth and in the ocean | Biosphere | Table - link | species | 109317 | Mora C, Tittensor DP... |
| Fraction of total primary productivity on earth that is from anoxygenic photosynthesis | Biosphere | 0.05 | % | 105040 | John A. Raven Functional... |
| Total bacteria biomass on Earth (≈15% of the global biomass, predominantly located in deep subsurface environments) | Biosphere | ≈70 | gigatons of carbon (Gt C) | 115272 | Bar-On YM, Phillips R... |
| Energy reaching primordial Earth from electric discharge, radioactivity, volcanism, or meteoritic impacts | Biosphere | 0.0062 | W/m^2 | 104559 | Jorg Overmann and Ferran... |