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SLIDE 8

According to the Smithsonian’s Dr. Terry Erwin, the world’s authority on tropical insects, more insects have been found in the Yasuni rainforests than anywhere else in the world: more than 100,000 species in an area the size of two and a half football fields!

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Erwin, T.L., M.C. Pimienta, O.E. Murillo, & V. Aschero (2004) . Mapping patterns of Beta-diversity for Beetles across the western Amazon Basin:
A preliminary  case for improving conservation strategies.  Proceedings of the California  Academy of Sciences.

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