Abstract
Photosynthetic living matter does not include all the essential manifestations of life in the biosphere, because the chemistry of the biosphere is only partially controlled by the vegetable world. Certain regularities that can be regarded as empirical (if not fully understood) generalizations are frequently encountered in nature, and in spite of their uncertainties must be taken into account. The most essential of them are described below.
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Vernadsky, V.I. (1998). Some Remarks on Living Matter in the Mechanism of the Biosphere. In: The Biosphere. Copernicus, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1750-3_7
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