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This ‘Map of Life’ Shows Where Undiscovered Species May Be Lurking – Gizmodo Australia

Nine years ago, a team of Yale ecologists mapped out the world’s life, a project that showed biodiversity patterns in geographical context; basically, a heat map…

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Nine years ago, a team of Yale ecologists mapped out the worlds life, a project that showed biodiversity patterns in geographical context; basically, a heat map of animal life. Now, theyve gone a step further: documenting the likeliest spots for unknown species to still exist, in the hopes that those animals can be documented before they disappear.
The teams research is published today in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. They took over 32,000 species of four different biological classes (amphibians,…

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