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Why Worry about How Many Species and Their Loss?

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We are astonishingly ignorant about how many species are alive on earth today, and even more ignorant about how many we can lose yet still maintain ecosystem services that humanity ultimately depends upon. The paper is important in offering an imaginative new approach to assessing total species numbers, both on land and in the sea. URL:[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/browseIssue.action].

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  • Robert M May, 2011. "Why Worry about How Many Species and Their Loss?," Working Papers id:4467, eSocialSciences.
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    1. Václav STEJSKAL & Alois HONĚK, 2015. "Is species diversity of various crop "pest taxa" proportionate to efforts paid to their research? A scientometric analysis in the Czech Republic - short note," Plant Protection Science, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 51(4), pages 191-194.

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