Plant Conservation and Biodiversity: The Place of Microorganisms

摘要: The total number of organisms that make up the array living species thatcharacterise thin ecosphere on Earth still remains unaccounted.Estimates range from eleven million (of which 1.5 have beendescribed) to over a billion (Table 1). Only now is scientific communitybeginning understand monumental task cataloguing life earth.What this exercise showing it unseen and forgotten world ofinvertebrates, fungi, non-flowering plants, marine andPDF available from: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/0-306-48099-9_1 (subscription required)