Environment NEWS: According to the largest-ever analysis of microbial data by researchers at Indiana University,US, Combined microbial,plant and animal community data-sets from government ,academic and citizen science sources ,resulted in the largest compilation of its kind.Earth contain many species,while 99.999% of them remain undiscovered. These data represent over 5.6 million microscopic and non-microscopic species from 35,000 locations across all the world’s oceans and continents, except Antarctica.The study combined the largest available data sets with ecological models and new ecological rules. As it turned out, the estimate showed upwards of 1,000,000,000,000 species.
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