{"id":463,"date":"2021-03-07T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=463"},"modified":"2021-06-10T11:38:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T10:38:20","slug":"23-how-many-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"23- How Many Species?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: 23- How Many Species?\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/3mFR0veOZpPjHswddXkdMD\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>This episode is really going to do what it says on the tin- discuss the question of how many species there are in the world. This might seem a simple question, but a simple answer has eluded the scientific community for some years now. On the show today, I&#8217;m going to go through some of the methods past research has used to answer this question and what figures they came up with.<\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode: 1) Latty, T. and Lee, T., &#8216;Phys.org&#8217; (2019), How many species on Earth? A simple question that&#8217;s hard to answer (online) [Accessed 16\/01\/2021]. 2) Mora, C., Tittensor, D. P., Adl, S., Simpson, A. G. B. and Worm, B. (2012), How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean? PLOS Biology 9(8): e1001127. A slight correction here- at one point I mention seven taxonomic levels, but I should have said six! The confusion came because &#8216;species&#8217; was the seventh one.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This episode is really going to do what it says on the tin- discuss the question of how many species there are in the world. This might seem a simple question, but a simple answer has eluded the scientific community for some years now. On the show today, I&#8217;m going to go through some of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=463\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;23- How Many Species?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}