Researchers find that Earth may be home to 1 trillion species
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 - 10:40
in Earth & Climate
Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now identified, according to the results of a new study. The estimate, based on universal scaling laws applied to large datasets, appears today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The report’s authors are Jay Lennon and Kenneth Locey […]