Correspondence:count cryptic species in biodiversity tally

Lee, Michael S Y; Oliver, Paul M

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Correspondence:count cryptic species in biodiversity tally

Date

2016-06-30

Authors

Lee, Michael S Y

Oliver, Paul M

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Abstract

The race to describe and archive the planet’s dwindling biodiversity (see K.-D. B. Dijkstra Nature 533, 172–174; 2016) becomes even more urgent with the realization that the task’s scale may be an order of magnitude greater than estimated.