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The amount of living matter in the biosphere (1020 to 1021 grams) does not seem excessively large, when its power of multiplication and geochemical energy are considered.
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Vernadsky, V.I. (1998). Photosynthetic Living Matter. In: The Biosphere. Copernicus, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1750-3_6
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