Extended Data Fig. 1: Sensitivity analysis of the anthropogenic mass definition. | Nature

Extended Data Fig. 1: Sensitivity analysis of the anthropogenic mass definition.

From: Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass

Extended Data Fig. 1

af, The effect of adding the following to the anthropogenic mass (dark purple): a, mass of the human population, b, mass of livestock, c, mass of crops and agroforestry, d, mass of earthworks, dredging and waste/overburden from mineral and metal production, and f, mass of anthropogenic atmospheric CO2 stocks, as well as e, the exclusion of the mass of industrial roundwood. The total biomass weight is depicted by the green line. Black dot indicates the year of intersection based on the alternative anthropogenic mass definition. Violet area and light green-dashed line indicate extrapolated anthropogenic mass and biomass estimates, respectively. Full description of the sensitivity analysis is provided in Supplementary Information section 1.

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