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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fraction of inorganic carbon in the mesopelagic western North Atlantic that is fixed by Nitrospinae | Bacteria Nitrospinae spp. | 15 - 45 | % | 115201 | Pachiadaki MG et al.... |
| Fraction of deep sea heterotrophic production abated by viruses | Biosphere | 80 | % | 104965 | Danovaro R, Dell'Anno A... |
| Cell concentration at 50m depth at sea | Cyanobacteria | 46000 (±14000) | cells/ml | 103899 | Pitta P, Karakassis I.... |
| Cell concentration at 100m depth at sea | Cyanobacteria | 12000 (±500) | cells/ml | 103901 | Pitta P, Karakassis I.... |
| Fraction of light-stimulated leucine incorporation in the North Atlantic Ocean that Prochlorococcus is responsible for | Prochlorococcus | >75 | % | 110356 | D. L. Kirchman, Microbial... |
| Concentration of marine picoplankton collected in Alaska and North Sea | Bacterioplankton | 0.11×10^9-1.07×10^9 | cells/ml | 105119 | Schut F, de Vries EJ... |
| Yield factor for sugars, polyhydric alcohols and paraffins in heterotrophic bacteria | bacteria | 1.1 | g biomass/g substrate carbon | 113072 | JD Linton & RJ Stephenson... |
| Predators are typically larger than their prey by | Biosphere | 4 | orders of magnitude | 113592 | Butterfield NJ, Macr... |
| Biomass yields under different growth conditions | Green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | 28.9 autotrophic: 15.6 heterotrophic: 13.5 to 22.9 mixotrophic | g biomass/mole carbon | 105935 | Boyle NR, Morgan JA.... |
| Best guess for distribution of bacterial mortality in the open ocean | Biosphere | grazing by protists ~50%: lysis due to bacteriophage ~50% | % | 115625 | Young KD. The selective... |
| Trophic strategies of 3,020 marine organisms as a function of length | Biosphere | Table - link | cm | 115793 | Andersen KH et al., ... |
| Estimating the number of essential genes in prokaryotic microorganisms | prokaryote | Table - link | N/A | 108691 | Mampel J, Buescher JM... |
| Generation time for different cultivation conditions | Green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | Heterotrophic 19.8: autotrophic 11.8: mixotrophic 10.5 Table - link | Hours | 105914 | Boyle NR, Morgan JA.... |
| Summary of bacteria isolated from guts of workers | Termite Reticulitermes flavipes | Table - link | N/A | 108555 | Schultz JE, Breznak JA.... |
| Bacteria isolated from guts of freshly collected larvae, soldiers, and workers | Termite Reticulitermes flavipes | Table - link | N/A | 108556 | Schultz JE, Breznak JA.... |
| Amount of bacteria in hindgut | Termite | 1.3e+6 to 4.3e+9 | Cells/gut | 108554 | Schultz JE, Breznak JA.... |
| Amount of bacteria in hindgut | Termite Reticulitermes flavipes | 2.7e+6 | Cells/gut | 108557 | Schultz JE, Breznak JA.... |
| Estimates of the biosphere's whale biomass | Mammals | 5 to 15 Table - link | Mt C | 109628 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| Estimates of the biosphere's total phytomass | Biosphere | 501 to 829 Table - link | Gt C | 109597 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |
| Estimates of the biosphere's elephants biomass | Elephant sp. | 0.1 Table - link | Mt C | 109623 | Vaclav Smil, The Earth's... |