PLoS Biology (Aug 2021)

Response to "Vast (but avoidable) underestimation of global biodiversity".

  • Stilianos Louca,
  • Florent Mazel,
  • Michael Doebeli,
  • Laura Wegener Parfrey

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001362
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 8
p. e3001362

Abstract

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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.