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If enough living things occupy a space with enough uniformity, does that space have lower entropy than one that is completely barren? Or one that is more barren? Either way, I think few would disagree that spaces very densely packed with life are unappealing — I can’t really decide why though. E.g. why is this middle space the most pleasing:

DALLE Prompt: Show me a scene from a rainforest with 3 zones where the first zone (shown at dusk) on the left is chaotic, dense, mossy and teeming with wildlife like tangled tree branches and competing ferns while the second zone in the middle (shown at nighttime) is balanced, clean, and serene with all flora falling into organized, non-overlapping patterns and smooth color gradients. The third zone on the right (shown at sunrise) is of a barren, homogenous tract of the forest with only dirt, which should elicit a sense of emptiness and destitution. All zones should flow continuously into one another — the transitions should be almost imperceptible. The entropy of the scene should hit its lowest point in the middle zone. The left and right zones represent maximum entropy in completely different ways.