Indiana University Researchers Find Earth May Be Home to 1 Trillion Species
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 - 04:40
in Biology & Nature
Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now identified, according to a study from biologists at Indiana University. The estimate, based on the intersection of large datasets and universal scaling laws, appears today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.