How Many Species Are There in Brazil?

@article{Lewinsohn2005HowMS,
  title={How Many Species Are There in Brazil?},
  author={Thomas Michael Lewinsohn and Paulo In{\'a}cio Prado},
  journal={Conservation Biology},
  year={2005},
  volume={19},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:84691981}
}
Estimates of the total number of species currently known and the total numbers predicted to occur in Brazil are produced and are likely to be underestimates and hence may be taken as a lower bound of the actual proportion of the world's species that occurs in Brazil.
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