[Taxacom] insect inventory in NPR

[JF Mate]

Oh the irony:

...Terry Erwin, an entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution's
National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., who was not
involved in the study, cautions against putting too much weight on the
estimated number of species. "This study is exciting because they've
taken a large team of people and used every technique available," he
says. "But to take a little sample from one place and scale up, it's
been critiqued and critiqued and it just doesn't work."

Still, wise words.


On 15 December 2012 05:48, Donat Agosti <agosti at amnh.org> wrote:
> And it is original coverage made it even onto the Science cover
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