New taxonomy / edited by Quentin D. Wheeler.
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TextSeries: Systematics Association special volume: no. 76.Publisher: Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2008Description: xi, 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780849390883 (hardback : alk. paper); 0849390885 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Biology -- Classification | Communication in biology | Biologie -- Classification -- Congres | Communication en biologie -- Congres | Biologia (classificacao) | Systematik | BiodiversitatDDC classification: 574 LOC classification: QH83 | .N49 2008Online resources: Table of contents only | 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 contezxt : three-dimensional specimen ordination and recognition / Norman MacLeod -- Taxonomic shock and awe / Quentin D. Wheeler.
"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 many species are living on the Earth. The New Taxonomy describes how a confluence of theory, cyberinfrastructure and international teamwork can meet this unprecedented research challenge and marks an emerging field, cybertaxonomy." "The book examines the efforts of several international groups to catalog the world's biodiversity and make it accessible. An answer to Julian Huxley's The New Systematics, the book signals the beginning of an upward trajectory of taxonomy to meet the unprecedented challenges of the biodiversity crisis. Contemporary taxonomists reclaim the unique mission, goals and importance of taxonomy as an independent science. They cover technologies such as DNA evidence and its applications, computer-assisted species identification, digital morphology and E-typification."--Jacket.
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