“Since childhood I have always been fascinated by the diversity of living things on our planet and dreamed of working exploring unexplored places on Earth and discovering the unknown species that live on it,” says Roberto Cazzolla Gatti. “Then, as a biologist, in recent years, I have dedicated myself to the issues of biodiversity, and one of them is how to estimate it with as little error as possible and how to protect it.” With this goal in mind, Cazzolla Gatti, from the University of Bologna in Italy, led a study that culminated in the most comprehensive global georeferenced survey of trees …

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