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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assimilation rate of bacterioplankton biomass by small-size algae in the North Atlantic Ocean | Small (~2um) photosynthetic protists | 0.12-0.38 | bacterioplankton cells per protist cell per hour | 113498 | MV Zubkov & GA Tarran... |
| Fraction of energy intake of the human population provided by seeds | Biosphere | ≤70 | % | 113091 | Wang G, Köhler C. Epigenetic... |
| Maximum depth of photosynthesizing alga/plants | Red algae | 268 | meters | 107740 | Lars Olof Bjorn, Effect... |
| Assumed generation time | Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus spp. | ~1 | day | 113307 | Kashtan N et al., Single-cell... |
| Virus to bacteria ratio in aquatic environments | Biosphere | 0.03-80 Table - link | unitless | 105602 | Wommack KE, Colwell RR.... |
| Fraction of number of individual animals that once shared the Earth with humans that are extinct | Biosphere | ≤50 | % of individual animals | 117268 | Ceballos G, Ehrlich PR... |
| Concentration of microbes in human gut | Microbes | 10^11 - 10^12 | microbes/ml | 112466 | Mahowald MA et al., ... |
| Fraction of the world’s photosynthetic activity that is accounted for by the phytoplankton component of marine microbes | Biosphere | ~50 | % | 113510 | Weynberg KD, Allen MJ... |
| Fraction of phytoplankton (that contribute approximately half of the global productivity) mass out of total mass in photosynthetic organisms worldwide | Biosphere | <0.5 | % | 113987 | Kaplan A. Cyanophages:... |
| Rate of productive viral infections necessary to maintain the global population of viruses | Biosphere | ~1E+24 | productive infections/sec | 116995 | Krupovic M, Prangishvili D... |
| Decrease in wildlife on Earth between 1970 and 2012 | Biosphere | ≤58 | % | 117265 | Ceballos G, Ehrlich PR... |
| List of non-human animals with publications on their genome projects as of 2012 | Metazoa animals | Table - link | Mb | 112712 | Luting Song & Wen Wang... |
| Fraction of cyanobacteria out of total ocean marine picoplankton in the upper 200 m | Biosphere | ~10 | % | 112102 | Flombaum P et al., Present... |
| Concentration of bacteria | Sponges phylum Porifera | ≤10^10 | bacteria/ml sponge volume | 113272 | Keren R, Lavy A, Mayzel B... |
| Fraction of body volume occupied by bacteria | Sponge Theonella swinhoei | ≤40 | % of body volume | 113271 | Keren R, Lavy A, Mayzel B... |
| Fraction of living biomass in global oceans that are marine microbes | Biosphere | >90 | % | 113509 | Weynberg KD, Allen MJ... |
| Properties of common sensor intrinsic chromophore fluorescent proteins | Generic | Table - link | N/A | 114032 | Sanford L, Palmer A.... |
| Fraction of world vascular plant flora that Mediterranean-type climate (MTC) regions (covering only about 2.2% of world land area) are home to | Biosphere | 16.7 | % of world vascular plant flora | 117260 | Rundel PW et al., Fire... |
| Survival time of tide-induced submergence (under water) | Spider (family Desidae) Desis marina | ≤19 | days | 116212 | Mammola S, Michalik P... |
| Time for parasite to coil around its host | Parasitic plant Cuscuta spp. (dodder) | ~4 | days | 113535 | Trewavas A. The foundations... |