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Progress in the discovery of isopods (Crustacea: Peracarida) - is the description rate slowing down?
Hartebrodt, L.; Wilson, S.; Costello, M.J. (2023). Progress in the discovery of isopods (Crustacea: Peracarida) - is the description rate slowing down? PeerJ 11: e15984. https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15984
In: PeerJ. PeerJ: Corte Madera & London. e-ISSN 2167-8359, meer
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Trefwoorden
    Isopoda [WoRMS]
    Marien/Kust
Author keywords
    Biodiversity, Isopoda, Description rate, Taxonomic effort

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  • Hartebrodt, L.
  • Wilson, S.
  • Costello, M.J., meer

Abstract
    Taxonomic species are the best standardised metric of biodiversity. Therefore, there is broad scientific and public interest in how many species have already been named and how many more may exist. Crustaceans comprise about 6% of all named animal species and isopods about 15% of all crustaceans. Here, we review progress in the naming of isopods in relation to the number of people describing new species and estimate how many more species may yet be named by 2050 and 2100, respectively. In over two and a half centuries of discovery, 10,687 isopod species in 1,557 genera and 141 families have been described by 755 first authors. The number of authors has increased over time, especially since the 1950s, indicating increasing effort in the description of new species. Despite that the average number of species described per first author has declined since the 1910s, and the description rate has slowed down over the recent decades. Authors’ publication lifetimes did not change considerably over time, and there was a distinct shift towards multi-authored publications in recent decades. Estimates from a non-homogeneous renewal process model predict that an additional 660 isopod species will be described by 2100, assuming that the rate of description continues at its current pace.

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