The Census of Marine Life has succeeded in raising awareness about marine biodiversity, and contributed much to our understanding of what lives where. But the project has fallen short of its goal to estimate species abundance.
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Pauly, D., Froese, R. A count in the dark. Nature Geosci 3, 662–663 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo973
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