{"id":160,"date":"2017-05-08T14:20:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T14:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/biology\/?page_id=160"},"modified":"2017-05-08T14:28:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T14:28:22","slug":"field_guide_statistics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/biology\/fieldguides\/field_guide_statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Guide Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the International Field Guides database<\/a> reached 5,000 records in summer 2007, Bird field guides were the most common at 17%, although birds make up less than 1% of all known species of organisms!\u00a0 By contrast, 7% of field guides cover Insects, which make up about 60% of all species but are more difficult to identify in the field.\u00a0 The most popular plant guides were Wildflower guides (12%) followed by general Plant guides (10%).\u00a0 North American field guides made up nearly half of the database, followed by 19% European guides.\u00a0 While the classification percentages are probably fairly accurate, the regional percentages almost certainly under-represent some regions of the world, especially those that use non-Roman alphabets and\/or are not in areas actively collected by North American science libraries.<\/p>\n

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