Biodiversity: So much more than legs and leaves
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Biodiversity: So much more than legs and leavesMicroorganisms inhabit virtually every possible niche on Earth, including those at the outer envelope of survival.However, the focus of most conservation authorities and ecologists is the 'legs and leaves' side of biologythe 'macrobiology' that can be seen with the naked eye.There is little apparent concern for the preservation of microbial diversity, or of unique microbial habitats.Here we show examples of the astounding microbial diversity supported by South Africa's ecosystems and argue that because microbes constitute the vast majority of our planet's species they should be considered seriously in the future protection of our genetic resources.
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- Authors
- Cowan, D. A., Rybicki, E. P., Tuffin, M. I., Valverde, A., & Wingfield, M. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Pretoria (ZA)
- University of Cape Town (ZA)
- University of the Western Cape (ZA)
- Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (ZA)
- Venue
- South African Journal of Science
- Publisher
- Academy of Science of South Africa
- Published
- 2013-11-27
- Volume
- 109
- Issue
- 11/12
- Pages
- 9
- ISSN
- 0038-2353 (ISSN-L)
- 1996-7489
- OpenAlex
- W2063221892
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 74
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 1.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- South African Journal of Science (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- UWC Research Repository (University of the Western Cape) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Research Foundation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Polar Research and Ecology
- Keywords
- microbial diversity, microbial habitats, biodiversity conservation, genetic resources, macrobiology
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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