A return-on-investment approach for prioritization of rigorous taxonomic research needed to inform responses to the biodiversity crisis.
Global biodiversity loss is a profound consequence of human activity. Disturbingly, biodiversity loss is greater than realized because of the unknown number of undocumented species. Conservation fundamentally relies on taxonomic recognition of species, but only a fraction of biodiversity is describe...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2021-06-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001210 |