the extensive contribution by Guilherme Piso and Jorge Marcgrave, titledHistoria Naturalis Brasiliae(Natural History of Brazil), published for the first time in 1648, is mentioned [23]. This work is a milestone, and it represents a truly scientific effort to make the flora and fauna of Brazil...
We also used simulations to estimate the number of additional species that would be recorded if we increased the sample size (i.e., adding new 1-ha plots). We simulated the sampling procedure from a logseries with conspecific clumping, as described above. This logseries had a total number ...