How many species of seed plants are there?
Recent estimates of the number of described species of seed plant have varied by as much as 62%. The underlying methodology of these estimates is characterised and discussed. We present a revised figure for the number of seed plants based on estimating rates of synonymy in a sample of recently monog...
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| description | Recent estimates of the number of described species of seed plant have varied by as much as 62%. The underlying methodology of these estimates is characterised and discussed. We present a revised figure for the number of seed plants based on estimating rates of synonymy in a sample of recently monographed taxa. We conclude that some recent figures overestimate the number of described seed plant species by more than 200,000. This discrepancy is explained by an over-reliance on checklists and floristic studies that underestimate synonymy rates. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:48162e30-e82c-4a9f-9f49-a8410fdeb2572022-03-26T15:23:33ZHow many species of seed plants are there?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:48162e30-e82c-4a9f-9f49-a8410fdeb257EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2003Scotland, RWortley, ARecent estimates of the number of described species of seed plant have varied by as much as 62%. The underlying methodology of these estimates is characterised and discussed. We present a revised figure for the number of seed plants based on estimating rates of synonymy in a sample of recently monographed taxa. We conclude that some recent figures overestimate the number of described seed plant species by more than 200,000. This discrepancy is explained by an over-reliance on checklists and floristic studies that underestimate synonymy rates. |
| spellingShingle | Scotland, R Wortley, A How many species of seed plants are there? |
| title | How many species of seed plants are there? |
| title_full | How many species of seed plants are there? |
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| title_short | How many species of seed plants are there? |
| title_sort | how many species of seed plants are there |
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