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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fraction of global primary production contributed by lakes and intertidal saltmarshes harboring anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria | Biosphere | 4 | % | 113691 | Jorg Overmann and Ferran... |
| Concentration of viruses in seawater | Virus | 10^6-10^8 | viral particles/ml | 113291 | Taylor MW, Radax R, Steger D... |
| Peak field photosynthesis efficiency | Biosphere | 4-5 | % | 100759 | Sustainable Energy -... |
| Beef production efficiency | Biosphere | 5-10 | Percent | 100758 | Sustainable Energy -... |
| Total population size in the wild | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 1E+20 | cells | 116909 | Tenaillon O, Skurnik D... |
| Anthropogenic CO2 budget for the anthropocene (1800 to 1994) and for the decades of the 1980s and 1990s | Biosphere | Table - link | PgC | 108708 | Sabine CL et al., The... |
| Estimates of the biosphere's total phytomass | Biosphere | 501 to 829 Table - link | Gt C | 109597 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| Estimates of total land phytomass | Biosphere | 450 to 1395 Table - link | Gt C | 109598 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| Estimates of the total ocean phytomass | Biosphere | 1 to 10^6 Table - link | Gt C | 109599 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| Estimates of the biosphere's heterotrophic biomass | Biosphere | Table - link | Mt C | 109600 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| livestock (cows, pigs, poultry etc) biomass on earth per person | Biosphere | ~100 | kg/person | 111482 | V. Smil, Should we eat meat?... |
| Estimates of the biosphere's total net primary production (NPP) | Biosphere | 35 to 146 Table - link | Gt C/year | 109603 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| Estimates of the land's net primary production (NPP) | Biosphere | 10 to 106 Table - link | Gt C/year | 109601 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| Estimates of the ocean's net primary production (NPP) | Biosphere | 20 to 126 Table - link | Gt C/year | 109602 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| Global cyanobacterial wet biomass | Cyanobacteria | 1 | trillion kg | 111370 | Garcia-Pichel, Ferran Belnap... |
| Rate of release of fossil-fuel derived CO2 | Biosphere | ~4.25e+14 | mol CO2/year | 116100 | Duursma EK, Boisson MPRM... |
| Sulfur flow on Earth | Biosphere | Table - link | N/A | 103509 | John Harte, Consider... |
| Nitrogen flow on Earth | Biosphere | Table - link | N/A | 103506 | John Harte, Consider... |
| Total archaea biomass on Earth (predominantly located in deep subsurface environments) | Biosphere | ≈7 | gigatons of carbon (Gt C) | 115280 | Bar-On YM, Phillips R... |
| Total animal biomass on Earth (mainly marine) | Biosphere | ≈2 | gigatons of carbon (Gt C) | 115271 | Bar-On YM, Phillips R... |