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2020 Biodiversity and Conservation Biodiversity – How Many Species Are There on Earth? Easy Question 32 of 95 in Biodiversity and Conservation

According to Robert May, the global species diversity is about:

A 20 million

B 50 million

C 7 million

D 1.5 million

The answer is C.

Solution

Robert May estimated the global species diversity at about 7 million. (Some extreme estimates range from 20 to 50 million.)

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95 questions from this chapter have appeared across 25 exam years.