The new taxonomy [electronic resource] / edited by Quentin D. Wheeler.
Contributor(s): Wheeler, Quentin
| Systematics Association. Meeting (2005 : Cardiff, Wales)Material type: 
TextSeries: Systematics Association special volume: no. 76.Publisher: Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2008Description: 1 online resource (xi, 237 p.) : illISBN: 9780849390883; 0849390885Subject(s): Biology -- Classification -- Congresses | Communication in biology -- CongressesAdditional physical formats: New taxonomy.Online resources: Click here to view. | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Based on papers presented at the 2005 meeting of the Systematics Association in Cardiff, Wales.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introductory : toward the new taxonomy / Quentin D. Wheeler -- Networks and their role in e-taxonomy / Malcolm J. Scoble -- Taxonomy as a team sport / Sandra Knapp -- Planetary biodiversity inventories as models for the new taxonomy / Lawrence M. Page -- On the use of taxonomic concepts in support of biodiversity research and taxonomy / Nico M. Franz, Robert K. Peet and Alan S. Weakley -- International infrastructure for enabling the new taxonomy : the role of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) / Larry Speers and James L. Edwards -- DNA sequence in taxonomy : opportunities and challenges / Rudolf Meier -- Animal names for all : ICZN, ZooBank and the new taxonomy / Andrew Polaszek, Richard Pyle and Doug Yanega -- Understanding morphology in systematic context : three-dimensional specimen ordination and recognition / Norman MacLeod -- Taxonomic shock and awe / Quentin D. Wheeler.
Initiatives reinventing taxonomy for the Internet age are leading to a dramatic resurgence in this once declining discipline. This book contains chapter that allows the readers to witness the emergence of the science of cybertaxonomy, a convergence of descriptive taxonomy with information science and computer engineering.
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