Norman MacLeod and colleagues' call to develop automated species-identification systems is laudable (Nature 467, 154–155; 2010), but let's not forget a core feature of taxonomic work that depends on a ...
Taxonomy has been much in the news in the past year or so. Everybody seems to want more of it, and in a slightly different way than it is currently done. Perhaps taxonomy should be done solely on the ...
"Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK. We are living in an age where biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, with the well-documented problems of habitat ...
Esser, H.-J. & Zhang, Z.-Q. 2012. A new year for Phytotaxa and some changes. Phytotaxa 46: 1–2. PDF Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) 2011. Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of ...