What’s the significance of the two different columns under the heading “Billion tonnes of carbon” in the first table? What does it mean for the number to be in one or the other?
Isaac, I’ve tried to make this clearer in the table in the post.
[Also by happy chance this process made me notice that I’d lost all of my footnotes in the process of transferring from google docs, which I’ve now fixed. Thanks both for indirectly causing me to notice this.]
What’s the significance of the two different columns under the heading “Billion tonnes of carbon” in the first table? What does it mean for the number to be in one or the other?
I think the numbers on the right column are supposed to be the ‘totals’ of the biomass of the domains/kingdoms/viruses as entire groups.
The original table is on page 89 of the supplementary materials document of the Bar-On, Phillips, and Milo paper.
Thanks Elias, I think you’re right.
Isaac, I’ve tried to make this clearer in the table in the post.
[Also by happy chance this process made me notice that I’d lost all of my footnotes in the process of transferring from google docs, which I’ve now fixed. Thanks both for indirectly causing me to notice this.]