Book ID: 92085
Wheeler, Quentin D. (ed.)
The New Taxonomy. 2008. (Systematics Association Special Volumes, 76). XI, 237 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Initiatives reinventing taxonomy for the Internet generation are leadingto a dramatic resurgence in this once declining discipline. Looking atthe effort of several groups to catalog the world's biodiversity andmake it accessible via databases, this work discusses the future ofdescriptive taxonomy. It covers such technology as DNA barcoding and itsapplications, computer-assisted species identification, digitalmorphology, and E-typification. It also provides insight into effectiveways of organizing taxonomic information, and discusses what benefitscan be leveraged from a rapid growth of taxonomic knowledge.