Just earlier this week announced the location - a first-nine fish and coral in Bali. Now, researchers from Princeton University argue that ...
such communications will continue to be, and at least 3,050 amphibians and 160 species of mammals ... have not been discovered and described!
In their report in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B., saying that most of these species, representing 33% of amphibians and 3% of land mammals, it is possible to "hide" in remote, unexplored rain forests Malaysia, Congo, Indonesia or the Amazon.
They concluded these estimates using a mathematical model that incorporates the known species of amphibians and mammals, the year of discovery and the area where they live.
"The proportion of unknown species is inversely proportional to the human footprint on habitats of tropical forests," the researchers explain. "This may be due to the fact that tropical forests with little human footprint have not been explored so well as areas where human influence is greater.
In addition, the report's authors argue that species have been detected at greater risk of extinction than those already known, so it might not ever announced their existence. Similarly, an animal found eg 2007 is likely to disappear than one species was discovered in 1800.
The reason: The "perfect storm of biodiversity loss", as characterized by the same investigators, describing a "cocktail" of reduced funding for research and destruction of habitat of such species. They suggest that efforts be made to these areas quickly put under the auspices of the authorities, so that the "hidden biodiversity" to protect until discovered.
Posted by 9MOHAMED0 on Sunday, May 22, 2011
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