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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Size of Amazonas forest | Biosphere | 5.4e+6 | km^2 | 100931 | Yadvinder Malhi, J. Timmons... |
| Share of the Amazonas forest in global terrestrial photosynthesis | Biosphere | 15 | % | 100932 | Yadvinder Malhi, J. Timmons... |
| Total biomass on Earth | Biosphere | ≈550 | gigatons of carbon (Gt C) | 115269 | Bar-On YM, Phillips R... |
| Total plant biomass on Earth (≈80% of total biomass) | Biosphere | ≈450 | gigatons of carbon (Gt C) | 115270 | Bar-On YM, Phillips R... |
| Rate of smectite-to-illite reaction, a transformation between two clay minerals (see comments section for details) | Bacteria Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 | in absence of bacterium 4-5 months: in presence of bacterium 2 weeks | N/A | 113582 | Olivia P. Judson, The... |
| Total respiration in the open ocean | Biosphere | 66 (56 - 76) | Gt C/year | 115412 | del Giorgio PA, Duarte... |
| Total reported fisheries catches for the oceanic gyre systems | Biosphere | ~3e+11 | g C/year | 115391 | del Giorgio PA, Duarte... |
| Estimated total respiration in the ocean interior | Biosphere | 1.2e+14 | mol O2/year | 115385 | del Giorgio PA, Duarte... |
| Average turnover time of plant organic matter on land | Biosphere | 19 | years | 102946 | Field CB, Behrenfeld MJ... |
| Global carbon dioxide assimilation via oxygenic photolithotrophy | Biosphere | >100 | Pg carbon/year | 112627 | Raven JA, Beardall J... |
| Percent of the surface area without permanent ice on land supporting NPP greater than 500 grams of C/(m^2Xyear) | Biosphere | 25 | % | 102950 | Field CB, Behrenfeld MJ... |
| Total animal biomass on Earth (mainly marine) | Biosphere | ≈2 | gigatons of carbon (Gt C) | 115271 | Bar-On YM, Phillips R... |
| Total marine biomass on Earth | Biosphere | ≈6 | gigatons of carbon (Gt C) | 115273 | Bar-On YM, Phillips R... |
| Fraction of respiration in the open ocean that is vertebrate respiration | Biosphere | ≤1 | % of respiration | 115388 | del Giorgio PA, Duarte... |
| Size of oceanic source of CO2 between the last glacial maximum and the Holocene epoch | Biosphere | 170≤ - ≤1,350 | Gt C | 115390 | del Giorgio PA, Duarte... |
| Fraction of light that PSII should process if cyclic electron flow is used | Unspecified | 44 | % | 106049 | Kramer DM, Evans JR.... |
| Estimates of respiration as a fraction of photosynthesis for maize, rice and wheat | Biosphere | 0.3-0.6 | Unitless | 103803 | Jeffrey S. Amthor, The... |
| Composition of rumen microbiome | Cow Bos Taurus | prokaryotes 454: protozoa 12: fungi 46 | species | 117086 | Wallace RJ et al., A... |
| Percent of the surface area in ocean supporting NPP greater than 500 grams of C/(m^2Xyear) | Biosphere | 1.7 | Percent | 102951 | Field CB, Behrenfeld MJ... |
| Global carbon dioxide assimilation via anoxygenic photolithotrophy and chemolithotrophy | Biosphere | anoxygenic photolithotrophy 0.03–0.07Pg carbon/year: chemolithotrophy 0.3Pg carbon/year | Pg carbon/year | 112628 | Raven JA, Beardall J... |