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Estimating prokaryotic diversity and its limits.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Aug 2002

Curtis Thomas P, Sloan William T, Scannell Jack W

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The absolute diversity of prokaryotes is widely held to be unknown and unknowable at any scale in any environment. However, it is not necessary to count every species in a community to estimate the number of different taxa therein. It is sufficient to estimate the area under the species abundance...

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PMID: 12097644
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.142680199
PMCID: PMC124953

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