The biomass distribution on Earth

Yinon M. Bar-On, Rob Phillips, and Ron Milo
PNAS June 19, 2018 115 (25) 6506-6511; published ahead of print May 21, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1711842115

  1. Edited by Paul G. Falkowski, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, and approved April 13, 2018 (received for review July 3, 2017)

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vol. 115 no. 25 6506-6511
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1711842115
PubMed: 
29784790
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National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue June 19, 2018.
  • Published first May 21, 2018.

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Copyright © 2018 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND).

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  1. Yinon M. Bar-Ona,
  2. Rob Phillipsb,c, and
  3. Ron Miloa,1
  1. aDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel;
  2. bDepartment of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125;
  3. cDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125

  1. Edited by Paul G. Falkowski, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, and approved April 13, 2018 (received for review July 3, 2017)

Footnotes

  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: ron.milo{at}weizmann.ac.il.

  • Author contributions: Y.M.B.-O., R.P., and R.M. designed research; Y.M.B.-O. and R.M. performed research; Y.M.B.-O. and R.M. analyzed data; and Y.M.B.-O., R.P., and R.M. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • Data deposition: All of the data used to generate our estimates, as well as the code used for analysis, are available on GitHub at https://github.com/milo-lab/biomass_distribution.

  • See Commentary on page 6328.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2018/07/13/1711842115.DC1.

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Yinon M. Bar-On, Rob Phillips, Ron Milo
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