Species per author per decade

Uses the same source data as in: Costello MJ, Wilson SP, Houlding B. 2012. Predicting total global species richness using rates of species description and estimates of taxonomic effort. Systematic Biology 61(5): 871-883. This file contains the number and percentage of authors who described one or more species per decade for the non-marine (CoL) and marine (WoRMS) datasets.