> biologically dead How can we balance microbial biodiversity against macroscopic zoological biodiversity? Certainly the Thames has been thriving with a divers

> biologically dead How can we balance microbial biodiversity against macroscopic zoological biodiversity? Certainly the Thames has been thriving with a diversity of microbial life. Are there measures of biodiversity that are less zoologically-centric and more information theoretic, say by measuring the information content of the collective genomes in an ecosystem, including bacteria and viruses?