Response to Comments on "Can We Name Earth's Species Before They Go Extinct?"

Global Coordination and Standardisation in Marine Biodiversity through the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and Related Databases

(2013) Mark J. Costello et al.   PLoS One

The Race to Name Earth's Species

(2013) W. F. Laurance   SCIENCE

Can We Name Earth's Species Before They Go Extinct?

(2013) M. J. Costello et al.   SCIENCE

More Taxonomists Describing Significantly Fewer Species per Unit Effort May Indicate That Most Species Have Been Discovered

(2013) Mark J. Costello et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity

(2012) Ward Appeltans et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

21 years of shelf life between discovery and description of new species

(2012) Benoît Fontaine et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Algal taxonomy: a road to nowhere?

(2012) Olivier De Clerck et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Insights from Zootaxa on potential trends in zoological taxonomic activity

(2011) Elise Tancoigne et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Species–area relationships always overestimate extinction rates from habitat loss

(2011) Fangliang He et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity hotspots house most undiscovered plant species

(2011) Lucas N. Joppa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Predicting Total Global Species Richness Using Rates of Species Description and Estimates of Taxonomic Effort

(2011) Mark J. Costello et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Predicting the number of known and unknown species in European seas using rates of description

(2010) Mark J. Costello et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Herbaria are a major frontier for species discovery

(2010) D. P. Bebber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century

(2010) H. M. Pereira et al.   SCIENCE

Re-assessing current extinction rates

(2009) Nigel E. Stork   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION