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Shortfalls and opportunities in terrestrial vertebrate species discovery

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Moura, Mario R., Jetz, Walter·2021·Nature Ecology & Evolution

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Much of biodiversity remains undiscovered, causing species and their functions to remain unrealized and potentially lost in ignorance. Here we use extensive species-level data in a time-to-event model framework to identify taxonomic and geographic discovery gaps in terrestrial vertebrates. Biological, environmental and sociological factors all affect discovery probability and together provide strong predictive ability for species discovery. Our model identifies distinct taxonomic and geographic unevenness in future discovery potential, with greatest opportunities for amphibians and reptiles, and for Neotropical and Indo-Malayan forests. Brazil, Indonesia, Madagascar and Colombia emerge as holding greatest discovery opportunities, with a quarter of potential discoveries estimated. These findings highlight the importance of international policy support for basic taxonomic research and the potential of quantitative models to aid species discovery.

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Authors: Moura, M. R., & Jetz, W.
Affiliations: Universidade Federal da Paraíba (BR)
Yale University (US)
Corresponding author: Moura, Mario R.
Jetz, Walter
ORCID: Moura, Mario R.
Jetz, Walter
Venue: Nature Ecology & Evolution
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2021-03-22
Volume: 5
Issue: 5
Pages: 631-639
ISSN: 2397-334X (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01411-5
OpenAlex: W3137801091
Cited by: 196
References: 104
Citations by year: 2026: 36 · 2025: 46 · 2024: 43 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 7
FWCI: 11.16
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
doi.org
Licence: www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (tdm)
www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (vor)
Locations: Nature Ecology & Evolution (publishedVersion)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: National Science Foundation (NSF grant DEB-1441737)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NSSC17K0282, 80NSSC18K0435)
E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, Half-Earth Project
Topics: Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Amphibian and Reptile Biology
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
Keywords: species discovery, terrestrial vertebrates, biodiversity, amphibians, reptiles, survival models, discovery probability, Neotropical forests, taxonomic research, conservation
MeSH terms: Animals, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Madagascar, Vertebrates

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