Why Worry about How Many Species and Their Loss?
Published By: Plos Biology on eSS | Published Date: August, 19 , 2011We 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].
Author(s): Robert M May | Posted on: Sep 19, 2011 | Views(714) | Download (800)