myrmepropagandist on Nostr: Cool article about the centers of peak ant diversity. "Some parts of the world that ...

Cool article about the centers of peak ant diversity.

"Some parts of the world that we expected to have high levels of diversity were not showing up on our map, but ants in these regions were not well studied.
...This difference in sampling can impact our estimates ...

So, we used machine learning to predict how the diversity would change if we sampled all areas around the world equally. ...we identified areas where we think many unknown, unsampled species exist."

https://theconversation.com/where-are-all-the-ants-world-first-treasure-map-reveals-hotspots-for-rare-species-188092