Species richness on coral reefs and the pursuit of convergent global estimates

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 500-505

  Fisher, Rebecca ^a   O'Leary, Rebecca A ^a   Low Choy, Samantha ^b   Mengersen, Kerrie ^b   Knowlton, Nancy ^c   Brainard, Russell E ^d   Caley, M Julian ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; FUNGI;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; UNCERTAINTY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CORAL REEFS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84923052981     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: 18790445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.022     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. N. Knowlton The future of coral reefs Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98 2001 5419 5425
2. B.S. Halpern, S. Walbridge, K.A. Selkoe, C.V. Kappel, F. Micheli, C. D'Agrosa, J.F. Bruno, K.S. Casey, C. Ebert, and H.E. Fox A global map of human impact on marine ecosystems Science 319 2008 948 952
3. J.M. Pandolfi, R.H. Bradbury, E. Sala, T.P. Hughes, K.A. Bjorndal, R.G. Cooke, D. McArdle, L. McClenachan, M.J.H. Newman, and G. Paredes Global trajectories of the long-term decline of coral reef ecosystems Science 301 2003 955 958
4. B.R. Scheffers, L.N. Joppa, S.L. Pimm, and W.F. Laurance What we know and don't know about Earth's missing biodiversity Trends Ecol. Evol. 27 2012 501 510
5. M.J. Caley, R. Fisher, and K. Mengersen Global species richness estimates have not converged Trends Ecol. Evol. 29 2014 187 188
6. A.R. Solow, and W.K. Smith On estimating the number of species from the discovery record Proc. Biol. Sci. 272 2005 285 287
7. M.J. Costello, S. Wilson, and B. Houlding Predicting total global species richness using rates of species description and estimates of taxonomic effort Syst. Biol. 61 2012 871 883
8. R.M. May How many species inhabit the earth? Sci. Am. 267 1992 42 48
9. J.F. Grassle, and N.J. Maciolek Deep-sea species richness: regional and local diversity estimates from quantitative bottom samples Am. Nat. 139 1992 313 341
10. M.L. Reaka-Kudla The global biodiversity of coral reefs: a comparison with rain forests M.L. Reaka-Kudla, D.E. Wilson, E.O. Wilson, Biodiversity II: Understanding and Protecting Our Biological Resources 1997 Joseph Henry Press 83 108
11. A.M. Small, W.H. Adey, and D. Spoon Are current estimates of coral reef biodiversity too low? The view through the window of a microcosm Atoll Res. Bull. 458 1998 1 20
12. P.M. Hammond Practical approaches to the estimation of the extent of biodiversity in speciose groups Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. 345 1994 119 136
13. C. Mora, D.P. Tittensor, S. Adl, A.G.B. Simpson, and B. Worm How many species are there on Earth and in the ocean? PLoS Biol. 9 2011 e1001127
14. D.P. Bebber, F.H.C. Marriott, K.J. Gaston, S.A. Harris, and R.W. Scotland Predicting unknown species numbers using discovery curves Proc. Biol. Sci. 274 2007 1651 1658
15. W. Appeltans, S.T. Ahyong, G. Anderson, M.V. Angel, T. Artois, N. Bailly, R. Bamber, A. Barber, I. Bartsch, and A. Berta The magnitude of global marine species diversity Curr. Biol. 22 2012 2189 2202
16. L.N. Joppa, D.L. Roberts, and S.L. Pimm How many species of flowering plants are there? Proc. Biol. Sci. 278 2011 554 559
17. R. Fisher, R.A. O'Leary, S. Low-Choy, K. Mengersen, and M.J. Caley A software tool for elicitation of expert knowledge about species richness or similar counts Environ. Model. Softw. 30 2012 1 14
18. WoRMS Editorial Board (2014). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org.
19. R. Fisher, N. Knowlton, R.E. Brainard, and M.J. Caley Differences among major taxa in the extent of ecological knowledge across four major ecosystems PLoS ONE 6 2011 e26556
20. N. Knowlton, R.E. Brainard, R. Fisher, M. Moews, L. Plaisance, and M.J. Caley Coral reef biodiversity A.D. McIntyre, Life in the World's Oceans 2010 Blackwell 65 77
21. A.J. Hamilton, Y. Basset, K.K. Benke, P.S. Grimbacher, S.E. Miller, V. Novotný, G.A. Samuelson, N.E. Stork, G.D. Weiblen, and J.D.L. Yen Quantifying uncertainty in estimation of tropical arthropod species richness Am. Nat. 176 2010 90 95
22. A.J. Hamilton, Y. Basset, K.K. Benke, P.S. Grimbacher, S.E. Miller, V. Novotny, G.A. Samuelson, N.E. Stork, G.D. Weiblen, and J.D.L. Yen Correction Am. Nat. 177 2011 544 545
23. A.J. Hamilton, V. Novotný, E.K. Waters, Y. Basset, K.K. Benke, P.S. Grimbacher, S.E. Miller, G.A. Samuelson, G.D. Weiblen, J.D. Yen, and N.E. Stork Estimating global arthropod species richness: refining probabilistic models using probability bounds analysis Oecologia 171 2013 357 365
24. M.J. Costello, and S.P. Wilson Predicting the number of known and unknown species in European seas using rates of description Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. 20 2011 319 330
25. I.M. Cote, and N. Knowlton Coral reef ecosystems: a decade of discovery M.D. Bertness, J.F. Bruno, B.R. Silliman, J.J. Stachowicz, Marine Community Ecology and Conservation 2014 Sinauer Associates 299 314
26. P. Bouchet The magnitude of marine biodiversity C.M. Duarte, The Exploration of Marine Biodiversity 2006 Fundación BBVA 31 64
27. F. Carbayo, and A.C. Marques The costs of describing the entire animal kingdom Trends Ecol. Evol. 26 2011 154 155
28. C. Mora, D.P. Tittensor, and R.A. Myers The completeness of taxonomic inventories for describing the global diversity and distribution of marine fishes Proc. Biol. Sci. 275 2008 149 155
29. W.N. Eschmeyer, R. Fricke, J.D. Fong, and D.A. Polack Marine fish diversity: history of knowledge and discovery (Pisces) Zootaxa 2525 2010 19 50
30. S.L. Choy, R. O'Leary, and K. Mengersen Elicitation by design in ecology: using expert opinion to inform priors for Bayesian statistical models Ecology 90 2009 265 277
31. P.M. Kuhnert, T.G. Martin, and S.P. Griffiths A guide to eliciting and using expert knowledge in Bayesian ecological models Ecol. Lett. 13 2010 900 914
32. D.J. Spiegelhalter, K.R. Adams, and J.P. Myles Bayesian Approaches to Clinical Trials and Health-Care Evaluation 2004 John Wiley and Sons
33. K.J. Gaston The magnitude of global insect species richness Conserv. Biol. 5 1991 283 296
34. N. Stork How many species are there? Biodivers. Conserv. 2 1993 215 232
35. T.G. Martin, M.A. Burgman, F. Fidler, P.M. Kuhnert, S. Low-Choy, M. McBride, and K. Mengersen Eliciting expert knowledge in conservation science Conserv. Biol. 26 2012 29 38
36. M. Drescher, L.J. Buse, A.H. Perera, and M.R. Ouellette Eliciting expert knowledge of forest succession using an innovative software tool A.H. Perera, C.A. Drew, C.J. Johnson, Expert Knowledge and its Application in Landscape Ecology 2012 Springer 69 86
37. M.J. Caley, R.A. O'Leary, R. Fisher, S. Low-Choy, S. Johnson, and K. Mengersen What is an expert? A systems perspective on expertise Ecol. Evol. 4 2014 231 242
38. I. Albert, S. Donnet, C. Guihenneuc-Jouyaux, S. Low-Choy, K. Mengersen, and J. Rousseau Combining expert opinions in prior elicitation Bayesian Anal. 7 2012 503 532
39. A. James, S. Low Choy, and K. Mengersen Elicitator: an expert elicitation tool for ecology Environ. Model. Softw. 25 2010 129 145
40. S. Low-Choy, A. James, J. Murray, and K. Mengersen Elicitator: a user-friendly tool to support scenario-based elicitaion of expert knowledge A.H. Perera, C.A. Drew, C.J. Johnson, Expert Knowledge and its Application in Landscape Ecology 2012 Springer 39 67