Scientific research on animal biodiversity is systematically biased towards vertebrates and temperate regions

• Mark A. Titley ,

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

  * E-mail: marktitley3@gmail.com

  Affiliation Insect Ecology Group, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4170-0535

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• Jake L. Snaddon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biological Sciences, Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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• Edgar C. Turner

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Insect Ecology Group, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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