Biology 3484A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter Tutorial Readings: Long Bone, Arthropod, Plant Cell
15 Sep 2020
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Reading one: tropical arthropod species, more or less , robert m. may, 2010. 5 to 10 million eukaryotes estimated, could be as low as 3 but as high as 100! Only one third of biologists work on invertebrates despite them comprising about 90% of life forms of life. Specifically, it is arthropods that are widely undiscovered. Mainly in tropical areas, which are furthermore undiscovered. We can use specific things like how many beetles we find per tree type, multiply by number of trees, multiply again to account for proportion that are beetles. Erwin"s estimate was about 30 to 100 million arthropods. On the other hand, there is hamilton, who factored in the number of tree species, for which he estimated the amount of arthropods to be closer to 1 to 5 million. What does this suggest about where funding should be directed versus where it actually is.
