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Reasoning about taxonomic completeness distribution in AFDB

This chain explains the conceptual and methodological reasoning for assessing taxonomic completeness in the AFDB, including the expectation from random sampling, the impact of taxonomic bias, and the limitation that known diversity is only a subset of actual biodiversity.

Confidence
80%
◑partialactivecomplexity: mid

Reasoning Steps (3)

Uniformity expectation under random samplingStep 1
Taxonomic bias as cause of skewed completenessStep 2
Known diversity is only a subset of actual ToL diversityStep 3

Source

Synthesis for current paper

Connections (4)

Taxonomic completeness in AFDB assessed using TimeTreeAssociation
Random sampling would yield uniform taxonomic completeness across phylaAssociation
Strong taxonomic bias leads to skewed taxonomic completeness distributionAssociation
Known diversity is a subset of actual diversity in tree of lifeAssociation