Predicting total global species richness using rates of species description and estimates of taxonomic effort.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Systematic Biology

• Publication date

  2012-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/sysbio/syr080PMID 21856630
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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