On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 07:45:14PM -0600, Steve Smith wrote: > Nope... not including *invertebrates* was his point. Also not > including fish (nor oceangoing invertebrates)
Sorry - I missed that he was only talking about one phylum. The way it was phrased mislead me. I'm still a little surprised that the human economy encompasses as much as 98% of chordata, although a figure in the 10s of percent wouldn't surprise me. We still have quite a lot of wild vertebrate fauna here in Australia, and even in the more densely populated parts of the world, rattus rattus must represent a substantial portion of the biomass. Unless he's also including species that happen to thrive because of humans... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
