Fig. 1
From: Mapping mycological ignorance – checklists and diversity patterns of fungi known for West Africa
Numbers of fungal species and estimations for fungal species richness in West Africa and West African countries. a Countries of West Africa considered for the present analysis. b Accumulation curve of numbers of fungal species known for West Africa reported by publications. Dashed lines show the accumulation of species as calculated with the richness estimators Bootstrap or Chao. c Accumulation curves of numbers of fungal species known for West African countries based on increasing numbers of publications that were analysed. Colours indicate the countries as shown in Fig. 1a. d Accumulation curves of numbers of fungal species known for West African countries based on increasing numbers of records. Colours indicate the countries as shown in Fig. 1a