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Environment & Energy

Alex4Martinez

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11. I see what you mean. They must have used specific criteria to reach those values.

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #10)

Tue May 26, 2020, 11:08 PM

May 2020

I referred to the study itself, but didn't dig through it to see how they selected which phylum/class/order/species/to include in the count.

Here's the link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16410-6

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