The biomass distribution on Earth [2018] User Levyyz, in the Climate change indicators are tracking the worst-case scenario. subreddit, 10 Jan 2023
Plants rule the earth, with 83% of total biomass, followed by bacteria with 13%. Animals, including humans? A measly 0.4%. Viruses, including COVID, weigh in with only 0.04% (not surprising; mostly information and not much else). Animal biomass is mostly arthropods (insects, spiders, crustaceans) an User BlueDarner55, in the DataIsBeautiful subreddit, 10 Jan 2022
TIL Humans and their domesticated animals make up 96% of the earth's mammalian biomass. Data in Figure S5 User PrimalCommunity, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 14 Jun 2021
Distribution of biomass on Earth. Numbers are quite drastic, to say the least. User cesam1ne, in the Zoology subreddit, 23 Jun 2020
Impact of the humanity on the biomass distribution User jxub, in the Overpopulation: unending growth on our finite planet is impossible. subreddit, 07 Dec 2018
The biomass distribution on Earth User ScepticalFrench, in the How do plants respond to their environment subreddit, 31 Jul 2018
Results of the research on biomass distribution on Earth. User zipper_tripper, in the DataIsBeautiful subreddit, 27 Jul 2018
The biomass distribution on Earth User eleitl, in the Low-volume, low-noise, moderated discussion of our coming collapse subreddit, 26 Jul 2018
The biomass distribution on Earth User eleitl, in the Low-volume, low-noise, moderated discussion of our coming collapse subreddit, 25 May 2018
We’ve helped cut the total weight (in terms of biomass) of plants by half and wild mammals by 85%, our domesticated livestock outweigh all wild mammals by 14 to 1, and the world’s chickens are triple the weight of all the wild birds. A wake-up call? User Meinfailure, in the HorriblyDepressing subreddit, 25 May 2018
A recent census of biosphere composition reveals that the biomass of humans and domesticated livestock far eclipses that of all wild mammals and even outweighs all vertebrates with the exception of fish User SvanteArrheniusAMA, in the Reddit Science subreddit, 22 May 2018
The biomass distribution on Earth User intlnews, in the Capitologenic Climate Catastrophe subreddit, 22 May 2018