48. Single Numbers – Poikilia

Carolus Linnaeus 1749 Estimate of species numbers in major taxa, in Oeconomia naturae, p. 47engl. transl. by B. Stillingfleet, 1762

Terry L. Erwin 1982 Insect richness of tropical forests, in The Coleopterists Bulletin 36

William B. Whitman, David C. Coleman and William J. Wiebe 1998 Prokaryotes, the unseen majority, in PNAS 95

Robert Costanza et al. 1997 The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital, in Nature 387

Stuart L. Pimm et al. 2014 The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection, in Science 344

Camilo Mora et al. 2011 How many species are there on earth and in the ocean, in PLOS Biology 9

Kenneth J. Locey and Jay T. Lennon 2016 Scaling laws predict global microbial diversity, in PNAS 113