The biomass and biodiversity of the continental subsurface

Cara Magnabosco, Li‐Hung Lin, Hailiang Dong, Malin Bomberg, W. C. Ghiorse · Nature Geoscience · 2018

Summary

It is found that bacteria are more abundant than archaea and that their community composition was correlated to sample lithology, and the total global prokaryotic biomass is approximately 23 to 31 Pg of carbon C (PgC), roughly 4 to 10 times less than previous estimates.

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Published: 2018-09-24
Cited by: 397
References: 114
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0221-6
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Keywords

Biodiversity, Biomass (ecology), Environmental science, Earth science, Geology

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