Sentences with phrase «professor stork»

After measuring a sample from the Natural History Museum's worldwide collection of beetles, Professor Stork compared the mean body size with the changing body sizes of British beetles to reveal that roughly 10 per cent of the world's beetles have been named and described.

Some say it could be as low as two million; others suggest up to 100 million,» says Professor Stork.

«While all methods of estimating global species richness make assumptions, what is important here is that four largely unrelated methods, including the new body size method, produce similar estimates,» says Professor Stork.

For this reason, Professor Stork and his colleagues focused on asking how many species of beetles and insects there actually are, in the process applying a new method of estimation arising from a tendency for larger species of British beetles to be described before smaller species.

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This is Professor Nigel Stork, from Griffith University's Environmental Futures Research Institute.