Global species richness estimates have not converged.

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2014-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2014.02.002PMID 24569101
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Handbook of Meta-analysis in Ecology and Evolution

  2013cited by this paper
• Can We Name Earth's Species Before They Go Extinct?

  2013cited by this paper
• A software tool for elicitation of expert knowledge about species richness or similar counts

  2012cited by this paper
• Estimating global arthropod species richness: refining probabilistic models using probability bounds analysis

  2012cited by this paper
• Bayesian Methods for Ecology: Frontmatter

  2007cited by this paper
• The future of biological diversity in a crowded world

  2002cited by this paper
• How many species are there?

  1993cited by this paper
• How Many Species Inhabit the Earth

  1992cited by this paper
• Paradise lost? Microbes mount a comeback as drug resistance spreads.

  1992cited by this paper
• How Many Species Are There?: Revisited

  1991cited by this paper

• Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps

  2026cites this paper
• Diversity and floristic uniqueness of non-arboreal restingas of the Northern Coast of Bahia, Brazil

  2025cites this paper
• A can of worms: estimating the global number of earthworm species

  2025cites this paper
• Geopolitical impacts on the description of new terrestrial mollusc species

  2025cites this paper
• Harnessing artificial intelligence to fill global shortfalls in biodiversity knowledge

  2025influential citation
• Tackling temporary names: interim solutions for the taxonomic impediment

  2025cites this paper
• Global Patterns of Taxonomic Uncertainty and its Impacts on Biodiversity Research.

  2025cites this paper
• Macroecological correlates of Darwinian shortfalls across terrestrial vertebrates

  2024cites this paper
• In hot water: Uncertainties in projecting marine heatwaves impacts on seagrass meadows

  2024cites this paper
• Species richness estimation of the Afrotropical Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae)

  2024cites this paper
• Expanding the taxonomic catalog of Brazilian meiofauna: diversity and distribution of the neglected phyla Tardigrada, Gastrotricha, and Kinorhyncha

  2024cites this paper
• Effects of urban ecosystem under the diversity and structure of two forest ecotones in Maranhão state

  2023cites this paper
• Species out of sight: elucidating the determinants of research effort in global reptiles

  2023cites this paper
• How many metazoan species live in the world's largest mineral exploration region?

  2023cites this paper
• Guidelines for model adaptation: A study of the transferability of a general seagrass ecosystem Dynamic Bayesian Networks model

  2022cites this paper
• Diversity and function of soil macrofauna: key information for studying the sustainability of tropical social-ecological systems

  2022cites this paper
• A Hundred Years of the “Living Matter” Concept: Its Amount, Quality, and Distribution in the Ocean

  2022cites this paper
• Unearthing the global impact of mining construction minerals on biodiversity

  2022cites this paper
• Biodiversity Change: Past, Present, and Future

  2022cites this paper
• Prey partitioning and livestock consumption in the world's richest large carnivore assemblage.

  2021cites this paper
• The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal

  2021cites this paper
• Biodiversity and species extinction: categorisation, calculation, and communication

  2020cites this paper
• Submerged Carbonate Banks Aggregate Pelagic Megafauna in Offshore Tropical Australia

  2020cites this paper
• Research challenges and opportunities for using big data in global change biology

  2020cites this paper
• Spatial resilience of the Great Barrier Reef under cumulative disturbance impacts

  2019cites this paper
• The Dynamic Universal Creativity Process

  2019cites this paper
• Status of Marine Biodiversity in the Anthropocene

  2019cites this paper
• Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

  2019cites this paper
• Filling in the Gaps: Adopting Ultraconserved Elements Alongside COI to Strengthen Metabarcoding Studies

  2019cites this paper
• Order reprints and pay color figure charges online at www.sheridan.com/aaas/eoc

  2019cites this paper
• Inferring global species richness from megatransect data and undetected species estimates

  2019influential citation
• No inflation of threatened species

  2019cites this paper
• Diversity of Curculionoidea in Humid Rain Forest Canopies of Borneo: A Taxonomic Blank Spot

  2018cites this paper
• Methods for the extraction, storage, amplification and sequencing of DNA from environmental samples

  2018cites this paper
• How Many Species of Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods Are There on Earth?

  2018cites this paper
• A logic approach to modelling nomenclatural change

  2018cites this paper
• Comprehensive inventory of true flies (Diptera) at a tropical site

  2018cites this paper
• Habitat suitability models to make conservation decisions based on areas of high species richness and endemism

  2018cites this paper
• Filling the BINs of life: Report of an amphibian and reptile survey of the Tanintharyi (Tenasserim) Region of Myanmar, with DNA barcode data

  2018cites this paper
• Remarkable fly (Diptera) diversity in a patch of Costa Rican cloud forest: Why inventory is a vital science.

  2018influential citation
• Robustness of relative diversity metrics to inventory incompleteness: Could we estimate the near imponderable?

  2018cites this paper
• Evidence of cross-taxon congruence in Neotropical wetlands: Importance of environmental and spatial factors

  2017cites this paper
• Probabilistic models of species discovery and biodiversity comparisons

  2017cites this paper
• Improved Coral Population Estimation Reveals Trends at Multiple Scales on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

  2017influential citation
• Estimating global species richness using symbolic data meta-analysis

  2017influential citation
• HOW DOES SPATIAL SCALE AFFECT SPECIES RICHNESS MODELLING? A TEST USING REMOTE SENSING DATA AND GEOSTATISTICS

  2017cites this paper
• Estimating regional species richness: The case of China's vascular plant species

  2017cites this paper
• Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae): Smelling the rat in native ladybird declines

  2017cites this paper
• DER: An algorithm for comparing species diversity between assemblages

  2017cites this paper
• Biodiversity and ecosystem services in forests: management and restoration founded on ecological theory

  2017cites this paper
• Species richness in the genus Microplana (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Microplaninae) in Europe: as yet no asymptote in sight

  2017cites this paper
• Crown-of-thorns starfish undermine the resilience of coral populations on the Great Barrier Reef

  2017cites this paper
• Science Journals — AAAS

  2017cites this paper
• DNA barcoding and taxonomy: dark taxa and dark texts

  2016cites this paper
• Bionics and Biodiversity – Bio-inspired Technical Innovation for a Sustainable Future

  2016cites this paper
• How many species are there

  2016cites this paper
• How many species are there on Earth

  2016cites this paper
• On the (virtual) getting of wisdom: Immersive 3D interfaces for eliciting spatial information from experts

  2016cites this paper
• The vast unknown microbial biosphere

  2016cites this paper
• A Logic Approach to Modeling Nomenclatural Change

  2016cites this paper
• Marine protected areas increase resilience among coral reef communities.

  2016cites this paper
• The Point Count Transect Method for Estimates of Biodiversity on Coral Reefs: Improving the Sampling of Rare Species

  2016cites this paper
• The vast unknownmicrobial biosphere

  2016cites this paper
• Science Journals — AAAS

  2016cites this paper
• New approaches narrow global species estimates for beetles, insects, and terrestrial arthropods

  2015cites this paper
• Implications of Sponge Biodiversity Patterns for the Management of a Marine Reserve in Northern Australia

  2015cites this paper
• Lack of well-maintained natural history collections and taxonomists in megadiverse developing countries hampers global biodiversity exploration

  2015cites this paper
• Animal telemetry: Follow the insects.

  2015cites this paper
• Animal telemetry: Follow the insects.

  2015cites this paper
• Species richness on coral reefs and the pursuit of convergent global estimates.

  2015cites this paper
• How to inventory tropical flies (Diptera)--One of the megadiverse orders of insects.

  2015cites this paper
• Insect responses to interacting global change drivers in managed ecosystems.

  2015cites this paper
• The Dynamic Discipline of Species Delimitation: Progress Toward Effectively Recognizing Species Boundaries in Natural Populations

  2015influential citation
• Characterising Uncertainty in Expert Assessments: Encoding Heavily Skewed Judgements

  2015cites this paper
• Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity

  2015cites this paper
• Recent Advances in Lichenology

  2015influential citation
• Understanding Uncertainties in Non-Linear Population Trajectories: A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Hierarchical Approach to Large-Scale Surveys of Coral Cover

  2014cites this paper