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Vast (but avoidable) underestimation of global biodiversity
The number of species on Earth is highly uncertain. A recent study has suggested that there are less than 2 million prokaryotic species on Earth; this Formal Comment suggests instead that there are more likely hundreds of millions or billions of species, and that the majority of these are bacteria a...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
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Public Library of Science
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8360379/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34383760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001192 |