| Range |
Catalogued ~950,000 Predicted ~7,770,000 Table - link species
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| Organism |
Eukaryotes |
| Reference |
Mora C, Tittensor DP, Adl S, Simpson AG, Worm B. How many species are there on Earth and in the ocean? PLoS Biol. 2011 Aug9(8):e1001127. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001127 p.5 table 2PubMed ID21886479
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| Method |
"[Researchers] accounted for undiscovered higher taxa by fitting, for
each taxonomic level from phylum to genus, asymptotic regression
models to the temporal accumulation curves of higher taxa
(Figure 1A–1E) and using a formal multimodel averaging
framework based on Akaike’s Information Criterion [23] to
predict the asymptotic number of taxa of each taxonomic level
(dotted horizontal line in Figure 1A–11E see Materials and
Methods for details)." |
| Entered by |
Ron Milo - Admin |
| ID |
109318 |