- Scientists race to digitize DNA of every known species on the . . .
Over the next decade, teams will digitize DNA of the 1 8 million named plant, animal, fungi and single-celled eukaryote species on the planet By the end of 2022, the scientists plan on sequencing
- Number of Species on Earth - Current Results
The greatest species diversity exists among insects, which account for about one million of the earth's species known to science Mammals make up one of the smallest groups, with just 5,513 members Altogether the earth's oceans, lakes, continents and islands support over 66,000 identified species of vertebrate animals and more than 307,000
- A huge project is underway to sequence the genome of every . . .
The Earth Biogenome Project, a global consortium that aims to sequence the genomes of all complex life on earth (some 1 8 million described species) in ten years, is ramping up The project’s
- How many species are there? - Our World in Data
One of the most widely cited figures comes from Camilo Mora and colleagues; they estimated that there are around 8 7 million species on Earth today 4 Costello et al (2013) estimate 5 ± 3 million species; Chapman (2009) estimate 11 million; and after reviewing the range in the literature, Scheffers et al (2012) choose not to give a concrete
- How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?
Assessment of this pattern for all kingdoms of life on Earth predicts ∼8 7 million (±1 3 million SE) species globally, of which ∼2 2 million (±0 18 million SE) are marine Our results suggest that some 86% of the species on Earth, and 91% in the ocean, still await description
- Global biodiversity - Wikipedia
Given the 50,000 described tropical tree species, Erwin suggested that there are almost 10 million beetle species in the tropics [27] In 2011 a study published in PLoS Biology estimated there to be 8 7 million ± 1 3 million eukaryotic species on Earth [11] By 2017, most estimates projected there to be around 11 million species or fewer on
- 8. 7 Million: A New Estimate for All the Complex Species on Earth
But as scientists have tried to pin down that number for close to 2 centuries, their estimates have ranged wildly from fewer than a million to about 100 million Now, a novel type of analysis, which takes advantage of an apparently natural mathematical pattern in the biodiversity produced by evolution, has settled on a tally of about 8 7
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