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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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Autor principal: Wiens, John J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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