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The fungal dimension of biodiversity: magnitude, significance, and conservation
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The number of known species in the world is conservatively estimated at 1·5 million; six-times higher than hitherto suggested; this realization has major implications for systematic manpower, resources, and classification.About:
This article is published in Fungal Biology.The article was published on 1991-06-01. It has received 1381 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biodiversity.read more
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Estimating Terrestrial Biodiversity through Extrapolation
TL;DR: The importance of using 'reference' sites to assess the true richness and composition of species assemblages, to measure ecologically significant ratios between unrelated taxa, toMeasure taxon/sub-taxon (hierarchical) ratios, and to 'calibrate' standardized sampling methods is discussed.
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Phylogenetic relationships among ascomycetes: evidence from an RNA polymerse II subunit.
TL;DR: Findings show that a slowly evolving protein-coding gene such as RPB2 is useful for diagnosing phylogenetic relationships among fungi, and suggests that fruiting body formation and forcible discharge of ascospores were characters gained early in the evolution of the Ascomycota.
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How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean
Camilo Mora,Camilo Mora,Derek P. Tittensor,Derek P. Tittensor,Derek P. Tittensor,Sina M. Adl,Alastair G. B. Simpson,Boris Worm +7 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the higher taxonomic classification of species follows a consistent and predictable pattern from which the total number of species in a taxonomic group can be estimated, and when applied to all domains of life, it predicts ∼8.7 million eukaryotic species globally.
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The future of biodiversity.
TL;DR: For example, the authors showed that if all species currently deemed "threatened" become extinct in the next century, then future extinction rates will be 10 times higher than recent rates in well-known, but taxonomically diverse groups from widely different environments.
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The magnitude of fungal diversity: the 1.5 million species estimate revisited
TL;DR: The number of known species of fungi is estimated as at least 74 K, but could be as much as 120 K with allowances for ‘orphaned’ species as discussed by the authors, which is the current working hypothesis for the number of fungi on Earth.
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