Open AccessResponse to “Vast (but avoidable) underestimation of global biodiversity”
Author(s) -
Stilianos Louca,
Florent Mazel,
Michael Doebeli,
Laura Wegener Parfrey
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001362
Subject(s) - biodiversity , diversity (politics) , environmental resource management , field (mathematics) , geography , political science , environmental science , ecology , biology , mathematics , law , pure mathematics
This Formal Comment provides clarifications on the authors’ recent estimates of global bacterial diversity and the current status of the field, and responds to a Formal Comment from John Wiens regarding their prior work.