Our paper in Ecology Letters gathers all good data we have on feeding interactions in that most expansive of places: the seabed. Millions of species—185 data points. This is a problem. We need to talk about why studying interactions is awesome & necessary. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el… First, I should clarify that by good data I mean data that gives us some idea of how an organism searches for, captures and handles food. In ecology, it is not (always) enough to just know who eats whom, but rather how strong an interaction is.

1. Amazingly, this is the first contemporary effort to estimate the biomass distribution of all life on Earth. There are some striking patterns among the ~550 gigatons of carbon packed into life on our planet.
(tl;dr the Triffids won)
pnas.org/content/early/… … 2. Plants completely and utterly dominate (82%), flowed by bacteria (13%) and fungi (2%).

ALL the rest—archaea, protists, animals, and viruses...EVERYTHING—constitute the scabby remaining 3%