Why Worry about How Many Species and Their Loss?

We are astonishingly ignorant about how many species are alive on earth today, and even more ignorant about how many we can lose yet still maintain ecosystem services that humanity ultimately depends upon. Mora et al.'s paper is important in offering an imaginative new approach to assessing tot...

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Autor principal: May, Robert M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3160330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21886482
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001130
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spelling pubmed-31603302011-08-30 Why Worry about How Many Species and Their Loss? May, Robert M. PLoS Biol Primer We are astonishingly ignorant about how many species are alive on earth today, and even more ignorant about how many we can lose yet still maintain ecosystem services that humanity ultimately depends upon. Mora et al.'s paper is important in offering an imaginative new approach to assessing total species numbers, both on land and in the sea. Public Library of Science 2011-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3160330/ /pubmed/21886482 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001130 Text en Robert M. May. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3160330/
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