The New TaxonomyQuentin D. Wheeler Finalist for 2009 The Council on Botanical & Horticultural Libraries Literature Award!A Fresh Look at Taxonomy The most fundamental of all biological sciences, taxonomy underpins any long term strategies for reconstructing the great tree of life or salvaging as much biodiversity as possible. Yet we are still unable to say with any certainty how |
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... set out the problems facing general biologists in deciding which kinds of data would most effectively progress systematics. Since then, more than 70 volumes have been published, often in rapidly expanding areas of science where a modern ...
... set out the problems facing general biologists in deciding which kinds of data would most effectively progress systematics. Since then, more than 70 volumes have been published, often in rapidly expanding areas of science where a modern ...
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... set in motion a series of theoretical and methodological advances that would effectively tease apart pattern from ... data is yet to be fully examined in either theory or practice, although such methods are widely and uncritically ...
... set in motion a series of theoretical and methodological advances that would effectively tease apart pattern from ... data is yet to be fully examined in either theory or practice, although such methods are widely and uncritically ...
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... set forth a comprehensive, rigorous, theoretical and methodological framework for reconstructing phylogeny and ... data are analysed is far more important to the rigor of taxonomy than the source of those data. Therefore, the arrival of ...
... set forth a comprehensive, rigorous, theoretical and methodological framework for reconstructing phylogeny and ... data are analysed is far more important to the rigor of taxonomy than the source of those data. Therefore, the arrival of ...
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... data matrixes and on the selection of one cladogram from among a set of equally parsimonious ones–as opposed to the ... data-sets. Fifth, relatively inexpensive and increasingly abundant molecular sequence data arrived. Once the ...
... data matrixes and on the selection of one cladogram from among a set of equally parsimonious ones–as opposed to the ... data-sets. Fifth, relatively inexpensive and increasingly abundant molecular sequence data arrived. Once the ...
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... data-set after data-set, it is depleting this capital but it is not reinvesting in the study of the complex characters that can be explained by its results or in the basic exploration and enumeration of Earth's species that provide the ...
... data-set after data-set, it is depleting this capital but it is not reinvesting in the study of the complex characters that can be explained by its results or in the basic exploration and enumeration of Earth's species that provide the ...
Contents
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Chapter 2 Networks and Their Role in eTaxonomy | 19 |
Chapter 3 Taxonomy as a Team Sport | 33 |
Chapter 4 Planetary Biodiversity Inventories as Models for the New Taxonomy | 55 |
Chapter 5 On the Use of Taxonomic Concepts in Support of Biodiversity Research and Taxonomy | 63 |
The Role of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility GBIF | 87 |
Opportunities and Challenges | 95 |
ICZN ZooBank and the New Taxonomy | 129 |
ThreeDimensional Specimen Ordination and Recognition | 143 |
Chapter 10 Taxonomic Shock and Awe | 211 |
Index | 227 |
Systematics Association Publications | 239 |
Back cover | 245 |
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