Systema naturae 250 the Linnaean ark

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Polaszek, Andrew
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c2010.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781420095029
Physical Descriptionxvi, 276 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.).

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Table of Contents:
  • The major historical trends of biodiversity studies / Edward O. Wilson
  • Linnaeus : a passion for order / David Quammen
  • Daniel Rolander : the invisible naturalist / James Dobreff
  • Taxonomy and the survival of threatened animal species : a matter of life and death / Gordon McGregor Reid
  • Engineering a Linnaean ark of knowledge for a deluge of species / Quentin D. Wheeler
  • Historical name-bearing types in marine molluscs : an impediment to biodiversity studies? / Philippe Bouchet and Ellen E. Strong
  • Flying after Linnaeus : diptera names since Systema naturae (1758) / Neal L. Evenhuis ... [et al.]
  • E-publish or perish? / Sandra Knapp and Debbie Wright
  • Reviving descriptive taxonomy after 250 years : promising signs from a mega-journal in taxonomy / Zhi-Qiang Zhang
  • Provisional nomenclature : the on-ramp to taxonomic names / David E. Schindel and Scott E. Miller
  • Future taxonomy / David J. Patterson
  • The encyclopedia of life : a new digital resource for taxonomy / James Hanken
  • Future taxonomy today : new tools applied to accelerate the taxonomic process / Norman F. Johnson
  • The all genera index : strategies for managing the big index of all scientific names / David Remsen
  • Linnaeus, Sherborn, ZooBank / Andrew Polaszek and Ellinor Michel
  • ZooBank : reviewing the first year and preparing for the next 250 / Richard L. Pyle and Ellinor Michel
  • Celebrating 250 dynamic years of nomenclatural debates / Benoît Dayrat
  • 250 years of Swedish taxonomy / Fredrik Ronquist.