Response to "Vast (but avoidable) underestimation of global biodiversity"

Stilianos Louca; Florent Mazel; Michael Doebeli; Laura Wegener Parfrey

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001362

Response to "Vast (but avoidable) underestimation of global biodiversity"

PLoS Biol. 2021 Aug 13;19(8):e3001362. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001362. eCollection 2021 Aug.

Authors

Stilianos Louca^{1

2}, Florent Mazel^{3

4}, Michael Doebeli^{3

5

6}, Laura Wegener Parfrey^{3

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America.
² Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America.
³ Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
⁴ Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
⁵ Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
⁶ Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Abstract

This Formal Comment provides clarifications on the authors' recent estimates of global bacterial diversity and the current status of the field, and responds to a Formal Comment from John Wiens regarding their prior work.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Biodiversity*

Grants and funding

SL was supported by a startup grant by the University of Oregon. MD was supported by NSERC Discovery Grant nr. 219930. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.