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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concentration of dissolved inorganic carbon in ocean is higher than atmospheric inorganic carbon | Biosphere | ~50 | Fold | 108698 | aquatic photosynthesis... |
| Date of great oxidation event | Biosphere | ~2.4 | Billion years ago | 107048 | Buick R. When did oxygenic... |
| Beginning of photosynthesis using chlorophyll pigments | Biosphere | ~1.8 | Billion years ago | 116087 | Duursma EK, Boisson MPRM... |
| Beginning of atmospheric oxygen production | Biosphere | ~3.2 | Billion years ago | 116068 | Duursma EK, Boisson MPRM... |
| Amount of oxygen in biosphere (for mass of total oxygen see 'Comments' section) | Biosphere | Net total amount 5.63×10^20: free oxygen in the atmosphere 3.75×10^19: dissolved oxygen in the oceans 3.1×10^17: (the remainder stored in a large number of oxidized terrestrial and oceanic compounds) | mol | 116069 | Duursma EK, Boisson MPRM... |
| Range of atmospheric oxygen in the past 600 million years | Biosphere | 7 - 30 | O2 volume % | 116072 | Duursma EK, Boisson MPRM... |
| Present global atmospheric oxygen level | Biosphere | 20.946 (±0.006) | volume % | 116086 | Duursma EK, Boisson MPRM... |
| Chemical oxygen demand (COD, the annual oxygen consumption by reductive atmospheric compounds) for the volcanic gases consuming oxygen | Biosphere | 3.1e+12 | mol O2/year | 116116 | Duursma EK, Boisson MPRM... |
| Residual production of oxygen (which is not consumed) as a result of burial of organic matter in the oceans | Biosphere | 0.011 x 10^14 - 0.13 x 10^14 | mol O2/year | 116117 | Duursma EK, Boisson MPRM... |
| Solar power arriving to earth from the sun (worldwide average) | Biosphere | 175 | 10^15 W (petaW) | 100943 | Karl TR, Trenberth KE.... |
| Annual water vapour passing through stomata in warm forested areas | Biosphere | 32 | 10^15 kg | 101753 | Alistair M. Hetherington1... |
| Beginning of persistent oxygenation of water masses throughout the oceans | Biosphere | 580 - 550 | Mya | 110481 | Johnston DT, Wolfe-Simon F... |
| Mixing time within the stratosphere | Biosphere | 10 | Years | 103516 | John Harte, Consider... |
| Turgor pressure | bacteria | E. coli ~0.3 - 3.0atm: Gram-positive bacteria such as B. subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus ∼20atm | atm | 112268 | Mika JT, Schavemaker PE... |
| Concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide in ocean water | Biosphere | 10 | µM | 100965 | aquatic photosynthesis... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Maximal atmospheric oxygen fraction during vertebrate evolution, 300 Myr ago | Biosphere | 31 | % | 104532 | Castellano S et al Low... |