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Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
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Sun & solar system physical properties | Generic | Table - link | N/A | 110208 | NASA National Aeronautics... |
Effective temperature of the Sun | Generic | 5780 | Kelvin | 110209 | David R. Lide. CRC Handbook... |
Maximal absorption rate under sun illumination of chlorophyll pigment | Biosphere | 4 | 1/sec | 100344 | Noy D, Moser CC, Dutton... |
Solar power arriving to earth from the sun (worldwide average) | Biosphere | 175 | 10^15 W (petaW) | 100943 | Karl TR, Trenberth KE.... |
Abundances of the elements in Earth's crust, sea water & sun and solar system | Biosphere | Table - link | N/A | 110362 | Wikipedia-Abundances... |
Top 10 elements in the Sun and their relative abundance | Biosphere | Table - link | N/A | 106340 | Emsley John, Nature's... |
The top 10 elements in the Sun and their relative abundance | Biosphere | Table - link | N/A | 107255 | Emsley John, Nature's... |
Fraction of sun light intensity that leads to saturation of photosynthesis | C3 plants | 25 | % | 106361 | Ort DR, Melis A. Optimizing... |
The ratio of the energy flux needed to support a living cell to the output flux from the sun (for same weight) | Biosphere | 100000 | unitless | 100617 | Light, iron, Sam Granick... |
Fraction of sun light intensity that leads to saturation of photosynthesis | Microalgae | 16 | % | 106362 | Anastasios Melis, Solar... |
Productivity of the biosphere before it was powered by the sun | Biosphere | ≥1,000 - 1,000,000 | times less than today | 113580 | Olivia P. Judson, The... |
Density of photochemical reaction centres in a sun adapted or acclimated plant | Plants | 5 | nmol/m^2 | 105045 | John A. Raven Functional... |
Number of UV photoproducts in each exposed keratinocyte induced by a single day in the sun | vertebrates | ≤10^5 | UV photoproducts/keratinocyte exposed to sun/day | 112971 | Hoeijmakers JH. DNA damage... |
Light intensities in the shadowed lower canopy of plants when exposed in sun light to 1500 μmol/m^2/sec | Plants | 1 to 10 | μmol/m^2/sec | 107739 | Keren N, Berg A, van Kan PJ... |
Visual angle of familiar objects | Human Homo sapiens | Sun or moon 0.5°: Thumbnail (at arm's length) 1.5°: Fist (at arm's length) 8°-10° | N/A | 105350 | John Moran eye center... |
Leaf area index (LAI) (see comments section for additional values) | Biosphere | Pinus forests 3-4: temperate mixed deciduous forests ~5.5: dense, tall-growing meadows 7-8 | unitless | 113232 | Körner C (2013) Plan... |
Near-red/far-red radiation ratio (NR/FR) | Biosphere | direct sunlight 1.2: undergrowth beneath a dense crown 0.2 | unitless | 113233 | Körner C (2013) Plan... |
Present average solar radiation | Biosphere | 340 | W/m^2 | 116099 | Duursma EK, Boisson MPRM... |
beta carotene concentration | Oak Quercus coccifera | 100 | mmol/mol chl | 101434 | Rubio De Casas R, Vargas P... |
Xanthophyll cycle pigments concentration | Oak Quercus coccifera | 84.2 | mmol/mol chl | 101433 | Rubio De Casas R, Vargas P... |