Systema Naturae 250 - The Linnaean ArkAndrew Polaszek The advent of relational databasing and data storage capacity, coupled with revolutionary advances in molecular sequencing technology and specimen imaging, have led to a taxonomic renaissance. Systema Naturae 250 - The Linnaean Ark maps the origins of this renaissance, beginning with Linnaeus, through his "apostles", via the great unsung hero Charl |
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... classification, and Gordon Reid looked at animal nomenclature in the context of conservation. The future of taxonomy was inevitably a major theme of the symposium, addressed by several invited speakers: Charles Godfray, Norm Johnson ...
... classification, and Gordon Reid looked at animal nomenclature in the context of conservation. The future of taxonomy was inevitably a major theme of the symposium, addressed by several invited speakers: Charles Godfray, Norm Johnson ...
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... classification, evolved in Western culture through four stages. The first was the hierarchical system introduced by Aristotle. Although this first systematics of recorded history muddled the picture somewhat by strict formal criteria ...
... classification, evolved in Western culture through four stages. The first was the hierarchical system introduced by Aristotle. Although this first systematics of recorded history muddled the picture somewhat by strict formal criteria ...
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... classification or even of the fact of evolution. In fact, it ultimately turned out that his proposed mechanism of evolution was wrong. This is the theory of inheritance of acquired characters, in which changes in one generation induced ...
... classification or even of the fact of evolution. In fact, it ultimately turned out that his proposed mechanism of evolution was wrong. This is the theory of inheritance of acquired characters, in which changes in one generation induced ...
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... classification—or that he created the Latin binomial system of naming species still used today. Those statements are roughly accurate, but they don't convey what made the man so important to biology during his era and afterward. You ...
... classification—or that he created the Latin binomial system of naming species still used today. Those statements are roughly accurate, but they don't convey what made the man so important to biology during his era and afterward. You ...
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... classified animals as “bloodless” and “blooded”), Leonhart Fuchs in the sixteenth century (who described 500 genera of ... classification system for all members of what he considered the three kingdoms of nature—plants, animals, and ...
... classified animals as “bloodless” and “blooded”), Leonhart Fuchs in the sixteenth century (who described 500 genera of ... classification system for all members of what he considered the three kingdoms of nature—plants, animals, and ...
Contents
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A Matter of Life and Death | 29 |
Chapter 5 Engineering a Linnaean Ark of Knowledge for a Deluge of Species | 53 |
An Impediment to Biodiversity Studies? | 63 |
Diptera Names since Systema Naturae 1758 | 75 |
Chapter 8 ePublish or Perish? | 83 |
New Tools Applied to Accelerate the Taxonomic Process | 137 |
Strategies for Managing the BIG Index of All Scientific Names | 149 |
Chapter 15 LinnaeusSherbornZooBank | 163 |
Reviewing the First Year and Preparing for the Next 250 | 173 |
Chapter 17 Celebrating 250 Dynamic Years of Nomenclatural Debates | 185 |
Chapter 18 250 Years of Swedish Taxonomy | 241 |
Concordance of Linnaeuss Names for Rolanders Insects | 253 |
A Partial List of Rolanders Insects in De Geers Original Drawings | 265 |
Promising Signs from a MegaJornal in Taxonomy | 95 |
The OnRamp to Taxonomic Names | 109 |
Chapter 11 Future Taxonomy | 117 |
A New Digital Resource for Taxonomy | 127 |
Index | 267 |
Back cover | 285 |
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Actinobacillus adopted animals application authors barcode binomial binominal nomenclature biodiversity informatics Biodiversity Information biological Blanchard botanical Bouchet Candolle Catalogue challenges characters classification Code of Zoological collections Commission on Zoological conservation database Dayrat Diarium Diptera DNA barcoding edition electronic entomologists Figure GBIF Geer Sys Geer’s genera genus global groups holotype ICZN Index informatics insects International Code International Commission journals Linnaean Linnaean Enterprise Linnaeus Linnaeus’s Linné literature London LSID molecular Museum name-bearing types Natural History naturalists Nomenclator nomenclatural acts NRM box organisms PhyloCode phylogenetic plants Platygastroidea Polaszek Principle of Priority proposed protoconch publication published rank-based codes reference registration Retzius Rolander Rolander’s rules scientific names species names Strickland Code Surinam Sweden Swedish synonyms synonymy Systema Naturae Systematic Zoology taxa taxon taxon labels taxon names taxonomic taxonomists tion type specimens ZooBank Zoological Nomenclature zoologists zoos Zootaxa