A more reliable design for biodiversity study?
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The results of a microcosm study by Naeem and Li, where species diversity of organisms within trophic groups was varied, concludes that such multiple species within the groups improved the reliability of the systems. However their tested hypothesis can only be reliably investigated through the use of a sufficiently large species pool to allow non-overlapping species compositions throughout replicates of the most species-diverse microcosms.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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101 uses for a dead bird: Natural history museums face an unprecedented opportunity as central players in biodiversity research
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Museums throughout the world have accumulated an invaluable heritage of 3 billion specimens, and museum directors assert that their collections are essential as a basis to creating the detailed picture of the Earth's biota. There is a need to refurbish and preserve existing collections as well as the creation of a link between taxonomic and systematic information and ecological and biogeographical databases.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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