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Fraction of ocean volume that constitutes water below the sunlit surface layer (i.e., the dark ocean) Biosphere 90 % 115202 Pachiadaki MG et al....
Percent of land covered by good farmable lands Biosphere 30 unitless 100546 http://hypertextbook...
Modern rate of net sulfide generation Biosphere 2.62e+12 mol S/year 110486 Johnston DT, Wolfe-Simon F...
Subseafloor microbial biomass Biosphere 4.1 (1.5 - 22) PgC 109985 Kallmeyer J, Pockalny R...
Fraction of deep sea organisms that are archaea Biosphere 40 % 106621 Copley J. All at sea....
Atmospheric concentration decrease for ideal isothermal conditions Biosphere ~9 km 111406 Hans Kuhn, Horst-Dieter...
Fraction of earth's surface covered by cold ecosystems (Arctic & Antarctica, non-polar cryosphere, and deep oceans) Biosphere 70 % 114093 Marcelo Baeza, Jennifer...
Estimated number of proteorhodopsin (PR)-expressing bacteria in world's oceans Biosphere 1E+28 bacteria 111062 Walter JM, Greenfield D...
Fraction of Earth's modern biomass by weight that are organics delivered from space Biosphere ≤10 % of modern biomass 112446 Schönheit P, Buckel W...
Quantities of the greenhouse gas CO2 that the ocean is able to absorb Biosphere ~37,000 Gt CO2 113986 Danovaro R et al., Marine...
Rubisco protein as a fraction of total protein and Rubisco nitrogen (N) as a fraction of total N Various Table - link unitless 109977 Raven JA. Rubisco: still...
planets in solar system Generic 8 (8-9) Unitless 100687 IAU
Speed of tectonic plates Biosphere 5 - 10 cm/year 110286 Glenn Elert, editor,...
Total annual energy consumption (in 1999) Biosphere 9.68E+16 BTU/year 104632 Gidon Eshel and Pamela Martin...
US 2002 mean food energy production Human Homo sapiens 15850 kJ/person/day 104634 Gidon Eshel and Pamela Martin...
US 2005 mean animal-based food energy production Human Homo sapiens 4400 kJ/person/day 104636 Gidon Eshel and Pamela Martin...
Major stocks of Carbon Biosphere Table - link N/A 103502 John Harte, Consider...
Percent of the inorganic carbon (C) assimilated in primary producers that involves Rubisco Various >99.5 % 109976 Raven JA. Rubisco: still...
Marine planktonic net primary productivity phytoplankton 47.5 PgC/year 109978 Raven JA. Rubisco: still...
Coastal benthic net primary productivity phytoplankton ~1 PgC/year 109979 Raven JA. Rubisco: still...