Sentence examples for estimates of biodiversity from inspiring English sources

Mammals (of which there are about 7,000 species) represent between 0.1 and 0.2% of life on earth; whether they are over-described will not have much impact on estimates of biodiversity.

Previous studies had provided widely ranging region- or taxon-specific estimates of biodiversity loss with climate change, making the seriousness of the problem hard to assess.

Each of metrics has a long history of use in phylogenetically-informed analyses of speciation and extinction rates [6], [34], [42], [49] or database-based estimates of biodiversity change [7], [9], [50] [51].

An in-depth discussion regarding whether one index is better than another e.g. whether Shannon's species diversity is better than evenness or delta plus falls outside the scope of the present paper, which focuses on estimates of biodiversity in the North Sea, Northeast Atlantic, and Arctic.

For us, two sorts of grey zones strongly confuse species-based estimates of biodiversity attempted by DNA barcoding.

For many data-poor countries however, global datasets such as these are the only consistent estimates of biodiversity that are available.

The resulting index value of 2.58 shows that even for equally sized datasets, the Titanium dataset provides an higher estimate of biodiversity.

The removal of singletons from all forest types increased the average estimate of biodiversity uniqueness to 41%, and the removal of singletons from land-uses other than primary forests increased the estimate further still, to 47%.

This lends credence to global estimates of arthropod biodiversity developed from plant models.

Thus, we report estimates of unknown biodiversity for different sub-regions and different types of organisms which were sampled using different sampling gears (Table 2).

Here on Earth, there are so many species and genes about which we know little or nothing that estimates of total biodiversity could be off by orders of magnitude.