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05-07-2016, 04:50 PM
How many living things are on Earth? This study says 1 trillion.
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Calculating how many species exist on Earth is a tough challenge. Researchers aren't even sure how many land animals are out there, much less the numbers for plants,*fungi or the most uncountable group of all: microbes.
**w, researchers have attempted to use the laws of math (http://www.livescience.com/38936-mathematics.html) to make an estimate that includes both micro and macro life. The researchers estimated that there may be as many as 1 trillion species out there.
SEE ALSO: Biodiversity abounds: Stunning photos of the Amazon (http://www.livescience.com/21552-amazon-biodiversity-photos.html)
The research is based on scaling laws, which predict a proportional change linking two variables. For example, scaling laws apply to the change in metabolic rates*as body size changes, and to the number of species found by geographical area. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/07/1-trillion-species-on-earth/)
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Calculating how many species exist on Earth is a tough challenge. Researchers aren't even sure how many land animals are out there, much less the numbers for plants,*fungi or the most uncountable group of all: microbes.
**w, researchers have attempted to use the laws of math (http://www.livescience.com/38936-mathematics.html) to make an estimate that includes both micro and macro life. The researchers estimated that there may be as many as 1 trillion species out there.
SEE ALSO: Biodiversity abounds: Stunning photos of the Amazon (http://www.livescience.com/21552-amazon-biodiversity-photos.html)
The research is based on scaling laws, which predict a proportional change linking two variables. For example, scaling laws apply to the change in metabolic rates*as body size changes, and to the number of species found by geographical area. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/07/1-trillion-species-on-earth/)
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