Biodiversity Databases If you have ever professionally used a biodiversity database you will soon have noticed that we still have a long w...
Showing posts with label taxonomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taxonomy. Show all posts
Saturday, 2 September 2017
Sunday, 2 April 2017
The Taxonomic Impediment As Illustrated By Journals
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April 02, 2017
The Taxonomic Impediment As Illustrated By Journals: Criteria For The Acceptance Of Manuscripts I learned from a co-author about two week...
Friday, 6 January 2017
Writing On Concepts Of Species
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January 06, 2017
Writing On Concepts Of Species Happy new year, everybody! Although many people are variously fed up with 2016 for the supposedly high nu...
Friday, 17 June 2016
Terminology Of Taxonomy
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June 17, 2016
Terminology Of Taxonomy Yesterday I read the description of a daisy and encountered the term 'peracute'. Acute means pointy and i...
Thursday, 21 April 2016
The joys of single-character taxonomy
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April 21, 2016
Time for a little rant. Two days ago I tried to identify an Australian native Asteraceae. I already knew that it had to belong to one of two...
Friday, 25 March 2016
Discordant paraphylies executed
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March 25, 2016
Strangely, editors of systematics journals do not appear to tire of opinion pieces rehashing the discussion about paraphyletic taxa that had...
Saturday, 12 March 2016
Unnecessarily arcane botanical terminology
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March 12, 2016
Sometimes the personal libraries of retired colleagues who want to downsize, or other left-over old books, are made presented in the corrido...