Response to Comments on “Can We Name Earth’s Species Before They Go Extinct?”

Mora et al. disputed that most species will be discovered before they go extinct, but not our main recommendations to accelerate species’ discoveries. We show that our conclusions would be unaltered by discoveries of more microscopic species and reinforce our estimates of species description and extinction rates, that taxonomic effort has never been greater, and that there are 2 to 8 million species on Earth.

• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2013-07-19

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/science.1237381PMID 23869006
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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