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Review
. 2010 Aug 2;5(8):e12110.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012110.

A census of marine biodiversity knowledge, resources, and future challenges

Mark John Costello  1 , Marta Coll, Roberto Danovaro, Pat Halpin, Henn Ojaveer, Patricia Miloslavich
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Review

A census of marine biodiversity knowledge, resources, and future challenges

Mark John Costello et al. PLoS One. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. The location of the geographic regions reviewed by the Census of Marine Life ( Table 1 ).
Figure 2
Figure 2. The relationship between total number of recorded species in each region to sea volume (solid red dots, dashed line, millions km3), and seabed area (squares, solid line, millions of km2) with linear trend lines shown.
Figure 3
Figure 3. The regions ranked by their state-of-knowledge index (mean ± standard error) across taxa.
Dashed line represents the overall mean.
Figure 4
Figure 4. The taxonomic groups ranked by their state-of-knowledge index (mean ± standard error) across regions.
Dashed line represents the overall mean.
Figure 5
Figure 5. The mean (± standard error) number of species identification guides across (a) major taxonomic groups for each region, and (b) across regions for each taxon.
Dashed line represents the overall mean.
Figure 6
Figure 6. Relationship between the number of identification guides and (a) mean knowledge by group and (b) total species richness, and (c) the relationship between knowledge by taxonomic group and number of alien species in the NRIC regions.
Figure 7
Figure 7. The number of taxonomic experts per taxon for each region (mean ± standard error).
Dashed line represents the overall mean.
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