Fontaine, Benoît van Achterberg, Kees Angel Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel Araujo, Rafael Asche, Manfred Aspöck, Horst Aspöck, Ulrike Audisio, Paolo Aukema, Berend Bailly, Nicolas Balsamo, Maria A. Bank, Ruud Belfiore, Carlo Bogdanowicz, Wieslaw Boxshall, Geoffrey Burckhardt, Daniel Chylarecki, Przemysław Deharveng, Louis Dubois, Alain Enghoff, Henrik Fochetti, Romolo Fontaine, Colin Gargominy, Olivier Soledad Gomez Lopez, Maria Goujet, Daniel S. Harvey, Mark Heller, Klaus-Gerhard van Helsdingen, Peter Hoch, Hannelore De Jong, Yde Karsholt, Ole Los, Wouter Magowski, Wojciech A. Massard, Jos J. McInnes, Sandra Mendes, Luis F. Mey, Eberhard Michelsen, Verner Minelli, Alessandro M. Nieto Nafrıa, Juan J. van Nieukerken, Erik Pape, Thomas De Prins, Willy Ramos, Marian Ricci, Claudia Roselaar, Cees Rota, Emilia Segers, Hendrik Timm, Tarmo van Tol, Jan Bouchet, Philippe Growth of the European taxonomic inventory. <p>Cumulative number of valid species of European terrestrial and freshwater multicellular species since Linnaeus. A: All species. B: Birds, a virtually completely inventoried compartment of European biodiversity. C: Coleoptera, where the number of valid species has steadily increased and shows no sign of levelling. D: Acari, which remained neglected for two centuries, and are now exhibiting a high discovery rate. E: Platyhelminthes, where the impression of a saturated inventory could be due to a current lack of taxonomic workforce. F: Neuropterida orders, for which the rate of description is erratic and reflects bursts of activity by a handful of taxonomists.</p> european;taxonomic 2012-05-23
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