[SEEK-Taxon] volume of papers on taxonomy

Wed Apr 14 11:21:44 PDT 2004

Awesome, KU has this online!  Amazing!  Love those librarians with their online databases, linking, DOIs ...

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	From: Nico M. Franz [mailto:franz at nceas.ucsb.edu] 
	Sent: 14 April, 2004 11:54 AM
	To: seek-taxon at ecoinformatics.org
	Subject: [SEEK-Taxon] volume of papers on taxonomy

	Hi All:

	   There's a new, 180-page long collection of almost 20 papers out on "the future of" taxonomy. It's probably the most comprehensive and authoritative voicing of taxonomy's issues in quite some time. I haven't had a chance to look at all papers yet but for example the ones by Knapp et al. & Lughadha are very informative and by people connected to the database developing community (from Kew, in this case). Of course there's also the occasional "isn't it necessary and wouldn't it be nice if everything was only a mouse-click away?" paper by biodiversity silverbacks. I attached the main information on the volume below, for those who can access it. Bold font means "recommended".

	Cheers,

	Nico

	Nico M. Franz
	National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
	735 State Street, Suite 300
	Santa Barbara, CA 93101

	Phone: (805) 966-1677; Fax: (805) 892-2510; E-mail: franz at nceas.ucsb.edu
	Website: http://www.cals.cornell.edu/dept/entomology/wheeler/Franz/Nico.html 

	The April 2004 issue of Philosophical Transactions series B contains papers of a theme entitled Taxonomy for the twenty-first century, compiled and edited by Charles Godfray & Sandy Knapp.

	Taxonomy, the description and classification of living organisms, is a science that underpins many areas of current biology.  Today it is confronted with both challenges and opportunities: the challenges are the every increasing competition for science funding, the opportunities are new technologies and methodologies that assist the practice and dissemination of systematics.  The volume contains a lively set of articles that describe and debate the current ferment of ideas from which a new 21st century taxonomy will emerge.  They are accompanied by a series of short essays by Ed Wilson, Dan Janzen, Peter Crane, Bob May and Peter Raven which describe their personal views of how the field should develop.

	http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/phil_trans_bio_taxonomy.shtml

	Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences
	Issue: Volume 359, Number 1444 / April 29, 2004

	        Introduction: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'   pp. 559 - 569
	        H. C. J. Godfray and S. Knapp

	        Taxonomic triage and the poverty of phylogeny: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'  pp. 571 - 583
	        Quentin D. Wheeler

	        A taxonomic wish-list for community ecology: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'    pp. 585 - 597
	        Nicholas J. Gotelli

	        Protist taxonomy: an ecological perspective: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'    pp. 599 - 610
	        Bland J. Finlay

	        Stability or stasis in the names of organisms: the evolving codes of nomenclature: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'      pp. 611 - 622
	        Sandra Knapp, Gerardo Lamas, Eimear Nic Lughadha, et al.

	        Prokaryote diversity and taxonomy: current status and future challenges: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'        pp. 623 - 638
	        Aharon Oren

	        Taxonomy and fossils: a critical appraisal: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'     pp. 639 - 653
	        Peter L. Forey, Richard A. Fortey, Paul Kenrick, et al.

	        Automated species identification: why not?: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'     pp. 655 - 667
	        Kevin J. Gaston and Mark A. O'Neill

	        The promise of a DNA taxonomy: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'  pp. 669 - 679
	        Mark L. Blaxter

	        Towards a working list of all known plant species: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'      pp. 681 - 687
	        Eimear Nic Lughadha

	        Biodiversity informatics: managing and applying primary biodiversity data: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'      pp. 689 - 698
	        Jorge Soberón and Townsend Peterson

	        Unitary or unified taxonomy?: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'   pp. 699 - 710
	        Malcolm J. Scoble

	        The role of taxonomy in species conservation: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'   pp. 711 - 719
	        Georgina M. Mace

	        Taxonomy and environmental policy: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'.     pp. 721 - 728
	        Cristián Samper

	        Taxonomy: where are we now?: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'    pp. 729 - 730
	        Peter H. Raven Professor FMRS

	        Now is the time: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'        pp. 731 - 732
	        Daniel H. Janzen

	        Tomorrow's taxonomy: collecting new species in the field will remain the rate-limiting step: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'    pp. 733 - 734
	        Robert M. May

	        Documenting plant diversity: unfinished business: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'       pp. 735 - 737
	        Peter R. Crane

	        Taxonomy as a fundamental discipline: One contribution of 19 to a Theme Issue 'Taxonomy for the twenty-first century'   p. 739
	        Edward O. Wilson

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