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Most of biological life appears to be either small (10-15g) or large (around 107g), though there is substantial uncertainty around body size and biomass across terrestrial, marine and subterranean species

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PLOS

The sizes of life

image: The relationship between two of the most important biological measures - body size and biomass - is bimodal but contains large uncertainty. view more 

Credit: Tekwa et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.028302

Article Title: The sizes of life

Author Countries: USA, Canada

Funding: The research was supported by the Tula Foundation (ET); the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (MP); MITACS (ET); the Coral Reef Alliance (ET & MP); and NSF awards OCE-1426891, DEB-1616821, and OISE-1743711 (MP). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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