Research Paper
The taxonomic impediment: A shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches
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- Title
- The taxonomic impediment: A shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches
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- Lincoln University
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- Description
For almost 30 years, there have been active discussions about the taxonomic impediment and the challenge this represents to address the current human-induced biodiversity crisis. From the start (Systematics Agenda 2000, 1994), the term ‘taxonomic impediment’ has been ambiguous, designating both the insufficiency and inadequacy of the resources put to the service of taxonomy (the taxonomic impediment sensu stricto) and its main consequence, the wide discrepancy between the reality of specific ...
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- Research Paper
- Research format
- Journal article
- Date created
- 2021-09-23
- Creator
- Engel, Michael S / Ceríaco, Luis MP / Daniel, Gimo M / Dellapé, Pablo M / Löbl, Ivan / Marinov, Milen / Reis, Roberto E / Young, Mark T / Dubois, Alain / Agarwal, Ishan / Lehmann A., Pablo / Alvarado, Mabel / Alvarez, Nadir / Andreone, Franco / Araujo-Vieira, Katyuscia / Ascher, John S / Baêta, Délio / Baldo, Diego / Bandeira, Suzana A / Barden, Phillip / Barrasso, Diego A / Bendifallah, Leila / Bockmann, Flávio A / Böhme, Wolfgang / Borkent, Art / Brandão, Carlos RF / Busack, Stephen D / Bybee, Seth M / Channing, Alan / Chatzimanolis, Stylianos / Christenhusz, Maarten JM / Crisci, Jorge V / D’elía, Guillermo / Da Costa, Luis M / Davis, Steven R / De Lucena, Carlos Alberto S / Deuve, Thierry / Fernandes Elizalde, Sara / Faivovich, Julián / Farooq, Harith / Ferguson, Adam W / Gippoliti, Spartaco / Gonçalves, Francisco MP / Gonzalez, Victor H / Greenbaum, Eli / Hinojosa-Díaz, Ismael A / Ineich, Ivan / Jiang, Jianping / Kahono, Sih / Kury, Adriano B / Lucinda, Paulo HF / Lynch, John D / Malécot, Valéry / Marques, Mariana P / Marris, John / Mckellar, Ryan C / Mendes, Luis F / Nihei, Silvio S / Nishikawa, Kanto / Ohler, Annemarie / Orrico, Victor GD / Ota, Hidetoshi / Paiva, Jorge / Parrinha, Diogo / Pauwels, Olivier SG / Pereyra, Martín O / Pestana, Lueji B / Pinheiro, Paulo DP / Prendini, Lorenzo / Prokop, Jakub / Rasmussen, Claus / Rödel, Mark-Oliver / Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut / Rodríguez, Sara M / Salatnaya, Hearty / Sampaio, Iris / Sánchez-García, Alba / Shebl, Mohamed A / Santos, Bruna S / Solórzano-Kraemer, Mónica M / Sousa, Ana CA / Stoev, Pavel / Teta, Pablo / Trape, Jean-François / Dos Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem / Vasudevan, Karthikeyan / Vink, Cornelis / Vogel, Gernot / Wagner, Philipp / Wappler, Torsten / Ware, Jessica L / Wedmann, Sonja / Zacharie, Chifundera Kusamba
- URL
- https://hdl.handle.net/10182/14345
- Related subjects
- Evolutionary Biology / Zoology
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