Predicting Total Global Species Richness Using Rates of Species Description and Estimates of Taxonomic Effort
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Predicting total global species richness using rates of species description and estimates of taxonomic effort.
We found that trends in the rate of description of 580,000 marine and terrestrial species, in the taxonomically authoritative World Register of Marine Species and Catalogue of Life databases, were similar until the 1950s. Since then, the relative number of marine to terrestrial species described per year has increased, reflecting the less explored nature of the oceans. From the mid-19th century...
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عنوان ژورنال: Systematic Biology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1076-836X,1063-5157
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syr080