In the red zone
In the red zone
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在红色区域
作者:
A. Blarer;M. Doebeli
SrR-May and Nee1 correctly raise the issue of synonymy-multiple names for single biological entities-as an important one for biodiversity studies. As Solow et al. 2 showed, roughly 20% of names for thrips proposed during this century are now regarded as synonyms. Using the time needed to detect the synonymy to model asymptotic levels, true relation between synonymy rate and mass (using order-of-magnitude values for each order) is r.= 0.755 (P< 0.05). Rate estimates range from a low of 17% for the inconspicuous and poorly known shrew opossums (Paucituberculata) to 78% for tapirs (Perissodactyla; other groups, edentates 64%, opossums 64%, primates 59%, carnivorans 56%, ungulates 56%, monitos