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Plant DNA Barcodes Can Accurately Estimate Species Richness in Poorly Known Floras

A new paper written by Environment Institute members, Craig Costion, Hugh Cross and Andrew Lowe as well as Andrew Ford from CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences and Darren Crayn and Mark Harrington from the Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, has recently been published in PLoS One.

The paper titled ‘Plant DNA Barcodes Can Accurately Estimate Species Richness in Poorly Known Floras’ demonstrates for the first time, using a case study, the potential of plant DNA barcodes for the rapid estimation of species richness in taxonomically poorly known areas or cryptic populations revealing a powerful new tool for rapid biodiversity assessment.

Read and dowload the paper to find out how applying barcode data in new ways can create new perspectives and methods on biodiversity value and quantification.

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