Spaceprobe Earth: Life
Earth hosts 550 Gt of Carbon-based biomass.
⬤ terrestrial life makes up 470 Gt, marine-life 6 Gt and 70+ Gt deep below the surface.
The present life can be split into 7 broad categories:
- ⬢ Plants: 450 Gt
- ⬢ Bacteria: 70 Gt
- ⬢ Fungi: 12 Gt
- ⬢ Archaea: 7 Gt
- ⬢ Protists: 4 Gt
- ⬢ Animals: 2 Gt
- ⬢ Viruses: 0.2 Gt
The ⬢ 2 Gt Animals are divided up to:
- ⬢ Arthropods, terrestrial: 0.2 Gt
- ⬢ Arthropods, marine: 1 Gt
- ⬢ Chordates, fish: 0.7 Gt
- ⬢ Chordates, livestock: 0.1 Gt
- ⬢ Chordates, humans: 0.06 Gt
- ⬢ Chordates, wild mammals: 0.007 Gt
- ⬢ Chordates, wild birds: 0.002 Gt
- ⬢ Annelids: 0.2 Gt
- ⬢ Molluscs: 0.2 Gt
- ⬢ Cnidarians: 0.1 Gt
- ⬢ Nematodes: 0.02 Gt
Although only making up 0.01 % of Earth's biomass, ⬢ Humans are the dominant species on Earth.
Humans on Earth: 8,231,358,761
Humans are a Type I civilization.
Humans in Space: -