Descriptive taxonomy : the foundation of biodiversity research /

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Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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.
Subject:	Biodiversity -- Mathematical models. Variation (Biology) -- Mathematical models. Conservation biology. Nature conservation. Sustainable biodiversity. Biodiversity -- Mathematical models. Conservation biology. Nature conservation. Sustainable biodiversity. Variation (Biology) -- Mathematical models.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10155927

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Other authors / contributors:	Watson, M. F. (Mark Francis), editor. Lyal, Christopher H. C., editor. Pendry, Colin, editor.
ISBN:	9780521761079 (hardback) 0521761077 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 destruction being compounded by the largely unknown future effects of Climate Change. High quality, accurate and reliable biodiversity data are needed by biologists, conservationists and environmental modellers to understand and assess the ecosystems in which they work, to produce effective conservation strategies, and to feed computer-generated models which predict what environments and habitats we might face"--

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

Descriptive taxonomy : the foundation of biodiversity research /

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