Lists of organisms by population
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This is a collection of lists of organisms by their population. While most of the numbers are estimates, they have been made by the experts in their fields. Species population is a science falling under the purview of population ecology and biogeography. Individuals are counted by census, as carried out for the piping plover;[3][4] using the transect method, as done for the mountain plover;[5] and beginning in 2012 by satellite, with the emperor penguin being first subject counted in this manner.[6]
Number of species
More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species,
By domain
The
Microbes
It is estimated that the most numerous bacteria are of a species of the
Animalia
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Vertebrates
Mammals (Mammalia)
Birds (Aves)
- Birds by population
- Anseriformes (waterfowl)
- Apodiformes (swifts and hummingbirds)
- Caprimulgiformes (nightjars and relatives)
- Charadriiformes (gulls and relatives)
- Ciconiiformes (storks and relatives)
- Columbiformes (doves and pigeons)
- Coraciiformes (kingfishers and relatives)
- Cuculiformes (cuckoos and relatives)
- Falconiformes (falcons and relatives)
- Galliformes (gamebirds)
- Gaviiformes (loons or divers)
- Gruiformes (cranes and relatives)
- Passeriformes (perching birds)
- Pelecaniformes (pelicans and relatives)
- Phoenicopteriformes (flamingos)
- Piciformes (woodpeckers and relatives)
- Podicipediformes (grebes)
- Procellariiformes (albatrosses and petrels)
- Psittaciformes (parrots)
- Sphenisciformes (penguins)
- Strigiformes (owls)
- Struthioniformes (ratites)
- Tinamiformes (tinamous)
- Trogoniformes (trogons and quetzals)
Reptiles (Reptilia)
| Animal | Population | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese alligator | 100–200[24] | Only in the wild. Chinese alligators are quite prolific in captivity, with estimates of the total captive population at over 10,000 animals, mostly in the Anhui Research Centre of Chinese Alligator Reproduction and the Madras Crocodile Bank. |
| Komodo dragon | 4,000–5,000 | Their populations are restricted to the islands of Gili Motang (100), Gili Dasami (100), Rinca (1,300), Komodo (1,700), and Flores (perhaps 2,000).[25] However, there are concerns that there may presently be only 350 breeding females.[26] |
Fish (Osteichthyes, Chondrichthyes, and Agnatha)
There are an estimated 3.5 trillion fish in the ocean.[27][28]
Hexapoda
Insects (Insecta)
Recent figures indicate that there are more than 1.4 billion insects for each human on the planet,[29] or roughly 1019 (10 quintillion) individual living insects on the earth at any given time.[30] An article in The New York Times claimed that the world holds 300 pounds of insects for every pound of humans.[30] Ants have colonised almost every landmass on Earth. Their population is estimated as between 1016–1017 (10-100 quadrillion).[31] With an estimated 20 quadrillion ants their biomass comes to 12 megatons of dry carbon, which is more than all wild birds and mammals combined.[32][33][34]
Plantae
Trees
According to NASA in 2005, there were over 400 billion trees on our globe.[35] However, more recently, in 2015, using better methods, the global tree count has been estimated at 3 trillion.[36] Other studies show that the Amazonian forest alone yields approximately 430 billion trees.[37] Extrapolations from data compiled over a period of 10 years suggest that greater Amazonia, which includes the Amazon Basin and the Guiana Shield, harbors around 390 billion individual trees.[38]
See also
- Biomass (ecology)
- Largest organisms
- List of longest-living organisms
- List of organisms by chromosome count
- Lists of animals
- Lists of extinct animals
- Lists of mammals by population
- World population (humans)
- List of birds by population
- Primary production
- Smallest organisms
- The world's 100 most threatened species
- Latitudinal gradients in species diversity
References
- IUCN. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
- ^ "U.S. POPClock Projection". U.S. Census Bureau.
- ^ Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center. "2011 International Piping Plover Census: Study Description". United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-12-24.
- ^ "Positive Piping Plover Count". Government of Saskatchewan. 6 Nov 2006. Archived from the original on 2013-05-06. Retrieved 2012-12-24.
- ^ "Mountain plover survey guidelines — Wyoming" (PDF). United States Fish and Wildlife Service. March 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-06-02. Retrieved 2012-12-24.
- ^ Dell'Amore, Christine (13 April 2012). "Emperor Penguins Counted From Space—A First". National Geographic News. National Geographic. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
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- ISBN 978-0-300-08469-6. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- New York Times. Retrieved 2014-12-25.
- ISBN 978-1-133-70787-5. Retrieved 2014-12-27.
- PMID 21886479.
- ^ a b c Pennak, Sara; et al. (18 January 2012). "State of observed species: A decade of species discovery in review" (PDF). International Institute for Species Exploration; Arizona State University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 October 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-02.
- ^ Staff (2 May 2016). "Researchers find that Earth may be home to 1 trillion species". National Science Foundation. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ "The Biosphere: Diversity of Life". Aspen Global Change Institute. Basalt, CO. Retrieved 2015-07-19.
- New York Times. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ^ (PDF) from the original on 20 August 2008. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
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- ^ Merry Youle & Gemma Reguera (February 22, 2015). "The Most Abundant Small Things Considered".
- ^ "Life in deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tons of carbon—hundreds of times more than humans". phys.org. Retrieved 2018-12-30.
- ^ "Number of chickens worldwide from 1990 to 2018". Statista. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
- ^ UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (July 2011). "Global Livestock Counts". The Economist. Archived from the original on July 15, 2016. Retrieved July 13, 2017.
- ^ Alligators, River Dolphins, Giant Salamanders In China - China | Facts And Details Archived 2010-11-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 1-58834-073-2.
- ^ "Ora (Komodo Island Monitor or Komodo Dragon)". American Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on March 7, 2010. Retrieved 2007-01-15.
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- ^ "How Many Fishes Are There in the World". 5 July 2022.
- ^ Worrall, Simon (6 August 2017). "Without Bugs, We Might All Be Dead". National Geographic Society. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
- ^ a b ""Numbers of Insects - Species and individuals"". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 23 Nov 2022.
- ^ Embery, Joan and Lucaire, Ed (1983) Collection of Amazing Animal Facts.
- ^ "How many ants are on Earth? 20 quadrillion, study says". France 24. September 19, 2022. Retrieved September 19, 2022.
- ^ Grandoni, Dino (September 19, 2022). "How many ants are crawling the Earth? Nearly 20 quadrillion, scientists say". Washington Post. Retrieved September 19, 2022.
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- ^ "How many tree species are there in the Amazon and how many of them will go extinct?". Archived from the original on 26 March 2012.
- ^ "Field Museum scientists estimate 16,000 tree species in the Amazon". EurekAlert!.
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