When it comes to understanding patterns of biodiversity, ours is a little-known planet. Large-scale sampling projects, as carried out in two investigations of insect diversity, show a way forward.
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Stork, N. World of insects. Nature 448, 657–658 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/448657a
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