Australian Biological Resources Study

Numbers of Living Species in Australia and the World

A.D.Chapman
Australian Biodiversity Information Services, Toowoomba, Australia
A Report for the Department of the Environment and Heritage, September 2005
ISBN (printed) 978 0 642 56849 6
ISBN (online) 978 0 642 56850 2
 

Acknowledgments

Many people have been very helpful in supplying information to me without hesitation. I would like to acknowledge their assistance. In particular, I would like to thank the ABRS staff, Helen Thompson, Pam Beesley, Patrick McCarthy and Alice Wells for responding to all my queries, and Per de Place Bjørn from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, who unhesitatingly supplied me with his database of taxa, numbers and references. This information was extremely helpful in finding relevant sources and references. Those people I would like to thank include:

Pam Beesley, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, Australia.

Simon Bennett, ERIN Unit, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra, Australia.

Per der Place Bjørn, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Peter Bostock, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane, Australia.

Christine Cargill, Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Canberra, Australia.

Sandra Claxton, NSW, Australia.

William N. Eschmeyer, Catalogue of Fishes, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA.

Rainer Froese, Fishbase, Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften, Kiel, Germany.

Cheryl Grgurinovic, Biosecurity Australia, Canberra, Australia.

Caroline Gross, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.

Michael Guiry, AlgaeBase, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

Neils Klazenga, Royal Botanic Gardens and National Herbarium of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

Reinhardt Kristensen, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Patricia Mather, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia.

Tom May, National Herbarium of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

Patrick McCarthy, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, Australia.

Scott Miller, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA.

Rich Mooi, Californian Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA.

Winston Ponder, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia.

Karen Sanamyan, Kamchatka Branch of Pacific Inst. of Geography, Kamchatka, Russia.

Helen Thompson, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, Australia.

Peter Uetz, Coordinator EMBL Reptile Database, Germany.

David B. Wake, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California at Berkeley, USA.

Alice Wells, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, Australia.

Librarian staff, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia.