Table 1.

Potential global marine animal biomass and production by body mass, expressed as wet weight.

body mass	biomass (B)			production (P)
g	106 t	g m−2	percentage of total	106 t yr−1	g m−2 yr−1	percentage of total
10−5–10−4	400.67	1.25	15	4893.16	15.22	49
10−4–10−3	356.25	1.11	14	2503.57	7.79	25
10−3–10−2	316.76	0.99	12	1280.94	3.99	13
10−2–10−1	281.64	0.88	11	655.39	2.04	7
10−1–100	250.42	0.78	10	335.33	1.04	3
100–101	222.66	0.69	8	171.57	0.53	2
101–102	197.97	0.62	8	87.78	0.27	1
102–103	176.03	0.55	7	44.91	0.14	<1
103–104	156.51	0.49	6	22.98	0.07	<1
104–105	139.16	0.43	5	11.76	0.04	<1
105–106	123.73	0.38	5	6.02	0.02	<1
totals	2621.81	8.16	100	10 013.40	31.15	100