A census-based estimate of Earth's bacterial and archaeal diversity

• Stilianos Louca ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: louca.research@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America, Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9216-5619

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• Florent Mazel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0572-9901

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• Michael Doebeli,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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• Laura Wegener Parfrey

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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