How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean? (PLOS Biology)

By I. Guarniero. 2014

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Impact of climate change on biodiversity and associated key ecosystem services in Africa: a systematic review (2018, background): “Predictions of climateinduced extinction rates are uncertain and expert opinions differ on the extent of loss due to the great deal of uncertainty regarding the number of species that exist on earth (He and Hubbell 2011; Mora et al. 2011).”
Inordinate Fondness Multiplied and Redistributed: the Number of Species on Earth and the New Pie of Life (2017, background): “Interestingly, some estimates of the relative richness of clades have remained similar to those based on described species (e.g., Wilson 1992), even with dramatic increases in projected richness overall (e.g., Mora et al. 2011; Figure 1).”
Applications for Marine Resources in Cosmetics (2017, background): “The oceans host a huge biodiversity, with more than 250,000 species described and many other species still to be discovered [3,4].”