对“在物种灭绝前，我们能否给地球的物种命名？”一文的评论的回应
Response to comments on "Can we name Earth's species before they go extinct?".
机构信息
Leigh Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Post Office Box 349, Warkworth, New Zealand.
出版信息
Science. 2013 Jul 19;341(6143):237. doi: 10.1126/science.1237381.
PMID:23869006
Abstract
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 species on Earth.
摘要
莫拉等人对大多数物种在灭绝前都将被发现这一说法提出质疑，但这与我们加快物种发现的主要建议无关。我们表明，即使发现更多的微观物种，我们的结论也不会改变，并且加强了我们对物种描述和灭绝率的估计，即分类学的努力从未如此之大，地球上有 200 万到 800 万种物种。
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