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MOSTLY PLANTS. "99.7% of life on earth is plant life, and all animals, including humans make up the remaining .3%." https://lnkd.in/dpDJpF8 View in LinkedIn

BIOMASS. "On land there is about 1,000 times more plant biomass (phytomass) than animal biomass (zoomass). About 18% of this plant biomass is eaten by the land animals. However in the ocean the animal biomass is nearly 30 times larger than the plant biomass. Most ocean plant biomass is eaten by the ocean animals." https://lnkd.in/did9s7q View in LinkedIn

GLOBAL DNA. "The total amount of DNA base pairs on Earth, as a possible approximation of global biodiversity, is estimated at 5.0 x 10(37), and weighs 50 billion tonnes. In comparison, the total mass of the biosphere has been estimated to be as much as 4 TtC (trillion tons of carbon)." https://lnkd.in/dZ36EmZ) View in LinkedIn

GLOBAL BIOMASS. "Apart from bacteria, the total live biomass on Earth is about 560 billion tonnes C, and the total annual primary production of biomass is just over 100 billion tonnes C/yr. The total live biomass of bacteria may be as much as that of plants and animals or may be much less." And viruses? https://lnkd.in/dZ36EmZ) View in LinkedIn

TWENTY ONE PERCENT. "Plants, mushrooms, lichens, brown algae represent 359,297 species out of a known total of 1,730,725 or about 21% by number. Note that we have no idea of the majority of bacteria and viral species, and are still counting plants and animal species." https://lnkd.in/dAy6Fk6 View in LinkedIn

TRANSPIRATION. "A new study estimates that 80 to 90 percent of the atmospheric water vapor originating from Earth's continents comes from plant transpiration rather than simple physical evaporation. This process uses up almost half of the solar energy absorbed by our landmasses and represents a major piece of our terrestrial climate system." https://lnkd.in/dKcjbbW View in LinkedIn

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GLOBAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS. "The team revised the rate of global photosynthesis upward. The rate is expressed in terms of how much carbon is processed by plants in a year. From the previous estimate of 120 petagrams of carbon a year, the team set the annual rate between 150 and 175 petagrams.” (One petagram equals one trillion kilograms). https://lnkd.in/dzpW9-Q View in LinkedIn

INEVITABLE. "Swiss Government's Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology concludes that plants have rights, and we have to treat them appropriately. A majority of the panel concluded that "living organisms should be considered morally for their own sake because they are alive." https://lnkd.in/dgH-auZ View in LinkedIn