Are all species necessary to reveal ecologically important patterns?

Abstract While studying ecological patterns at large scales, ecologists are often unable to identify all collections, forcing them to either omit these unidentified records entirely, without knowing the effect of this, or pursue very costly and time‐consuming efforts for identifying them. These “ind...

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Main Authors: Edwin Pos, Juan Ernesto Guevara Andino, Daniel Sabatier, Jean‐François Molino, Nigel Pitman, Hugo Mogollón, David Neill, Carlos Cerón, Gonzalo Rivas, Anthony Di Fiore, Raquel Thomas, Milton Tirado, Kenneth R. Young, Ophelia Wang, Rodrigo Sierra, Roosevelt García‐Villacorta, Roderick Zagt, Walter Palacios, Milton Aulestia, Hans ter Steege
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-12-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1246