Descriptive taxonomy : the foundation of biodiversity research /
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Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015. |
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Description: | x, 324 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Systematics Association special volume series ; volume 84 Systematics Association special volume ; no. 84. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10155927 |
Table of Contents:
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Part I. The Widening Audience
- 1. Floras yesterday, today and tomorrow
- 2. Current uses and future perspectives for conservation biology
- 3. The present and future value of Floras for functional ecologists
- 4. A publisher's perspective: making biodiversity information available and relevant to a wide audience
- Part II. The Products of Descriptive Taxonomy
- 5. Lessons learned from two projects, the Fauna Europaea and the Checklist delle specie della fauna italiana
- 6. Flora Europaea and Euro+Med
- 7. Increasing the utility of the regional African Floras
- 8. Cybertruffle: an on-line resource for mycology
- 9. Zooplankton Identification Manual for North European Seas (ZIMNES)
- 10. A field guide to the dragonflies and damselflies of Britain and Ireland
- 11. Sangha Trees: an identification and training guide to the trees of the northern Republic of Congo
- 12. Millennium Seed Bank collector guides
- 13. Training in tropical plant identification
- 14. Field identification of vectors and pathogens of military significance
- Part III. The Influence of Technology on Data Gathering in the Field
- 15. The changing role of collections and field research
- 16. Field methods for inventorying insects
- 17. From seabed to world wide web: an overview of marine zoological sampling, data processing and potential production of digital marine faunas
- 18. Advancements in electronic data capture for botanical field research in temperate regions
- Part IV. New Technologies: Their Current Use and Future Potential
- 19. Extending floras and faunas to include users' views
- 20. Taxa, taxon names and globally unique identifiers in perspective
- 21. E-publishing descriptive taxonomy: the convergence of taxonomic journals and databases
- 22. DNA barcoding in floral and faunal research
- Index