Response to Comments on "Can We Name Earth's Species Before They Go Extinct?"
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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 sp...
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Costello et al. (Review, 25 January 2013, p. 413) challenged the common view that many species are disappearing before being described. We suggest that their conclusion is overly optimistic because of a limited selection and interpretation of available evidence that tends to overestimate rates of species description and underestimate the number of species on Earth and their current extinction r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.1237381