|
Number of flowering plant species
|
Plants |
250,000 to 400,000 |
Species |
107611 |
Gruber CW et al., Di... |
|
Number of animal species catalogued in a central database as of 2011 and number of predicted species on Earth
|
Eukaryotes |
Catalogued ~950,000 Predicted ~7,770,000 Table - link |
species |
109318 |
Mora C, Tittensor DP... |
|
Number of archaea species catalogued in a central database as of 2011 and number of predicted species on Earth
|
Archaea |
Catalogued 502 Predicted 455 Table - link |
species |
109322 |
Mora C, Tittensor DP... |
|
Species 2000 - a "federation" of database organisations
|
Biosphere |
Database - link |
N/A |
109323 |
http://www.sp2000.or... |
|
World’s Register of Marine Species
|
Biosphere |
Database - link |
N/A |
109324 |
http://www.marinespe... |
|
Number of plant species catalogued in a central database as of 2011 and number of predicted species on Earth
|
Plants |
Catalogued ~216,000 Predicted ~298,000 Table - link |
Species |
109319 |
Mora C, Tittensor DP... |
|
Number of fungi species catalogued in a central database as of 2011 and number of predicted species on Earth
|
Fungus |
Catalogued ~43,000 Predicted 611,000 Table - link |
Species |
109320 |
Mora C, Tittensor DP... |
|
Number of protozoa species catalogued in a central database as of 2011 and number of predicted species on Earth
|
Protists |
Catalogued ~8,100 Predicted ~36,400 Table - link |
Species |
109321 |
Mora C, Tittensor DP... |
|
Reported number of yeast species as of 1998
|
Yeast |
>700 (belonging to 100 genera) |
species |
111636 |
Fonseca G. G., Gombert A. K.... |
|
Percentage of decreasing species classified by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) as "endangered" or "low concern" in terrestrial vertebrates
|
Vertebrates |
Table - link |
% |
117266 |
Ceballos G, Ehrlich PR... |
|
Percent of animal species that live in the sea
|
Biosphere |
20 |
% |
103928 |
May RM. How Many Species... |
|
Divergence of mono- and dicotyledonous plants
|
Plants |
130 to 220 |
Million years ago |
107612 |
Gruber CW et al., Di... |
|
Number of predicted protein-coding genes
|
Physcomitrella patens |
27949 |
genes |
111377 |
Lang D, Zimmer AD, Rensing SA... |
|
Time scale for appearance of photosynthetic O2 producing cyanobacteria
|
Biosphere |
3200 |
MYA |
103790 |
David L. Nelson, Michael... |
|
Number of mammals that have gone extinct during the sixth mass extinction that started in the Late Pleistocene
|
Biosphere |
>300 |
mammal species |
117255 |
Davis M, Faurby S, Svenning... |
|
Loss of evolutionary history across mammalian orders (Expected contribution to phylogenetic diversity (PD))
|
Biosphere |
Table - link |
N/A |
117256 |
Davis M, Faurby S, Svenning... |
|
Percent of arthropod species that are beetles
|
Unspecified |
40 |
% |
103932 |
May RM. How Many Species... |
|
Fraction of life destroyed at the end-Cretaceous boundary
|
Biosphere |
75 |
% |
111606 |
Landenmark HK, Forgan DH... |
|
Fraction of earth's surface covered by cold ecosystems (Arctic & Antarctica, non-polar cryosphere, and deep oceans)
|
Biosphere |
70 |
% |
114093 |
Marcelo Baeza, Jennifer... |
|
Fraction of biomass in the pelagic zone that is animals
|
Biosphere |
≤80 |
% |
113585 |
Olivia P. Judson, The... |