- Abstract:
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Species discovery is a fundamental first step for all of biodiversity science. Recent research has claimed that the increasing number of authors associated with the description of new species represents an expanding workforce discovering the remaining new species from an ever-diminishing pool. Here, we present a comprehensive dataset from The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) of new species of flowering plant published between 1970 and 2011. We show that, on average, 1855 new species hav...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Journal:
- The New phytologist
- Volume:
- 201
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 700-706
- Publication date:
- 2013-09-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1469-8137
- ISSN:
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0028-646X
- URN:
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uuid:352b6283-4115-4966-8634-eec8ad3dc4b0
- Source identifiers:
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433424
- Local pid:
- pubs:433424
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright date:
- 2013
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Author inflation masks global capacity for species discovery in flowering plants.
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