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- Title
Taxonomic uncertainty and the challenge of estimating global species richness.
- Authors
Stropp, Juliana; Ladle, Richard James; Emilio, Thaise; Lessa, Thainá; Hortal, Joaquín
- Abstract
Global species richness, macroecology, species identification, taxonomic uncertainty, taxonomy, tree species Keywords: global species richness; macroecology; species identification; taxonomic uncertainty; taxonomy; tree species EN global species richness macroecology species identification taxonomic uncertainty taxonomy tree species 1654 1656 3 08/29/22 20220901 NES 220901 It is a biogeographical trope that after several centuries of exploration, our knowledge of the world's biodiversity is still staggeringly incomplete (Meyer et al., 2016), even for well-studied groups such as trees (Keppel et al., 2021). Given the different stages of taxonomic knowledge for the various plant families, it is difficult to establish robust estimates of species richness, especially when such estimates are based on asymptotic values of extrapolated species accumulation curves or non-parametric species richness estimators (as e.g. in Gatti et al., 2022).
- Subjects
NUMBERS of species; SPECIES diversity; BOTANY; PALMS; PLANT diversity; BIOLOGICAL classification; FOREST biodiversity
- Publication
Journal of Biogeography, 2022, Vol 49, Issue 9, p1654
- ISSN
0305-0270
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jbi.14463