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toxicodendron radicans

Polite reminder: Earth is a tree planet with some bacteria. Everything else is just the extra stuff that lives here too.

Diagram showing Earth life in terms of relative biomass (basically, how much all life on Earth weighs). Plants make up 450 billion tons, most of which is from trees. Bacteria are 70 billion tons. Fungi are 12 billion tons. All animals make up only 2 billion tons. All humans are just 60 million tons. We thank our leafy overlords.
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​

@InvaderXan What of marine life? Plankton, corals, sea grasses, and the like?

toxicodendron radicans

@dredmorbius Corals are types of cnidarian, and sea grasses are plants. Plankton are a huge collection of any kind of drifting ocean organism – with the exception of the terrestrial vertebrates, I'm pretty sure every group in this diagram contains some kind of plankton.

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​

@InvaderXan As the diagram casts it, plants. Your original toot overspecified trees, to nitpick.

I'm wondering about biomass distribution and/or carbon fixation among primary producers.

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