A Census of Marine Life
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A Census of Marine Life
A humanity has begun to explore Mars, we are still colonizing our home planet. The 70 percent of Earth beneath the oceans is twice the area of Mars and the moon combined, but it is not nearly as well mapped. Ninety-five percent of Earth’s biosphere volume is in the oceans, where life has thrived for billions of years. At the genetic level, the oceans contain the vast majority of Earth’s biodive...
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عنوان ژورنال: BioScience
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0006-3568
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0092:acoml]2.0.co;2