Table 1.
The most employed literature references (more than 100 taxon-modality records each) in the Polytraits database. The number of taxon-modality records supported by each reference is given, as well as the number of records for which the original text excerpt is quoted (see also section "Quality control").
A full list of all references used to collect data for the Polytraits database can be found in Suppl. material 3.
| Reference | Nr. of records (total) | Nr. of records withtext excerpt | Nr. of records withouttext excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rouse and Pleijel (2001) | 5466 | 5466 | 0 |
| Rouse and Pleijel (2006) | 2252 | 2252 | 0 |
| Hartmann-Schröder (1996) | 1756 | 1755 | 1 |
| Almeida et al. (2003) | 1540 | 1540 | 0 |
| Expert's Judgement | 1131 | 763 | 368 |
| MarLIN (2006) | 530 | 324 | 206 |
| Eckelbarger (2005) | 502 | 497 | 5 |
| Borja et al. (2000) | 491 | 1 | 490 |
| Fauchald and Jumars (1979) | 452 | 327 | 125 |
| Arvanitidis (1994) | 450 | 220 | 230 |
| San Martín (2003) | 410 | 388 | 22 |
| Wilson (1991) | 346 | 324 | 22 |
| Read (2006) | 214 | 214 | 0 |
| Vieitez et al. (2004) | 203 | 201 | 2 |
| Carson and Hentschel (2006) | 201 | 34 | 167 |
| Blake and Arnofsky (1999) | 181 | 120 | 61 |
| Tzetlin and Purschke (2005) | 178 | 140 | 38 |
| Holthe (1986) | 139 | 117 | 22 |
| Fauvel (1927) | 126 | 23 | 103 |
| Wolff (1973) | 124 | 124 | 0 |
| McHugh and Fong 2002 | 114 | 82 | 32 |
| Kupriyanova et al. 2001 | 111 | 59 | 52 |