Scientists Counted Every Species in Their Home, And Got a Huge Surprise : ScienceAlert
We are biodiversity researchers – an ecologist, a mathematician and a taxonomist – who were locked down together during the COVID pandemic.Being restricted to the house, it didn't take long before we began to wonder how many species of plants and animals we were sharing the space with. So we set to work counting them all.We guessed we would find around 200–300, and many of our colleagues guessed the same.There was nothing extraordinary about our 400 square metre block of land in Annerley, a suburb of Brisbane in…