Estimating How Many Undescribed Species Have Gone Extinct

Extinct even before scientific recognition: a remarkable radiation of helicinid snails (Helicinidae) on the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia

(2013) Ira Richling et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

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

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

What we know and don’t know about Earth's missing biodiversity

(2012) Brett R. Scheffers et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Reservoirs of richness: least disturbed tropical forests are centres of undescribed species diversity

(2011) X. Giam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The population ecology and social behaviour of taxonomists

(2011) Lucas N. Joppa et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The extent of undiscovered species in Southeast Asia

(2010) Xingli Giam et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Conservation Status of Imperiled North American Freshwater and Diadromous Fishes

(2010) Howard L. Jelks et al.   FISHERIES

How many species of flowering plants are there?

(2010) L. N. Joppa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century

(2010) H. M. Pereira et al.   SCIENCE

Conservation status and biogeography of Australia's terrestrial mammals

(2009) Andrew A. Burbidge et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Re-assessing current extinction rates

(2009) Nigel E. Stork   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions

(2009) CLAIRE RÉGNIER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Discoveries of new mammal species and their implications for conservation and ecosystem services

(2009) G. Ceballos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA