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How do ecologists estimate the total number of species present in the world?
The ecologists estimate the total number of species present in the world using the statistical methods because the number of species is too large . They make statistical comparisons of the temperate-tropical species richness of an exhaustively studied group of insects and extrapolate this ratio to other groups of animals and plants and come up with a gross estimate of the total number of species on earth
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