『Descriptive Taxonomy: The Foundation of Biodiversity Research』

Mark F. Watson, Chris Lyal, and Colin Pendry (eds.)
(2015年刊行,Cambridge University Press[The Systematics Association Special Volume Series: 84], Cambridge, x+324 pp. with 8 color plates, ISBN:9780521761079 [hbk] → 情報版元ページ

【目次】
List of Contributors ix
Introduction M. F. Watson, C. H. C. Lyal and C. A. Pendry 1


Part I. The Widening Audience 9

1. Floras yesterday, today and tomorrow (A. G. Miller, M. Hall, M. F. Watson, S. G. Knees, C. Pendry and M. R. Pullan) 11
2. Current uses and future perspectives for conservation biology (B. Collen) 24
3. The present and future value of Floras for functional ecologists (J. Dick, R. Smith and R. Wadsworth) 44
4. A publisher's perspective: making biodiversity information available and relevant to a wide audience (J. B. Connor) 58


Part II. The Products of Descriptive Taxonomy 67

5. Lessons learned from two projects, the Fauna Europaea and the Checklist delle specie della fauna italiana (A. Minelli) 69
6. Flora Europaea and Euro+Med (S. L. Jury) 77
7. Increasing the utility of the regional African Floras (D. W. Kirkup, P. Malcolm and A. Paton) 84
8. Cybertruffle: an on-line resource for mycology (D. W. Minter) 96
9. Zooplankton Identification Manual for North European Seas (ZIMNES) (L. C. Hastie et al.) 107


Part III. Outputs and Impact: Field Guides and Applications 111

10. A field guide to the dragonflies and damselflies of Britain and Ireland (S. J. Brooks) 113
11. Sangha Trees: an identification and training guide to the trees of the northern Republic of Congo (A. H. Wortley and D. J. Harris) 127
12. Millennium Seed Bank collector guides (D. Hopkins) 146
13. Training in tropical plant identification (D. J. Harris, S. Bridgewater and J.-M. Moutsamboté) 160
14. Field identification of vectors and pathogens of military significance (A. G. Gutierrez) 171


Part IV. The Influence of Technology on Data Gathering in the Field 179

15. The changing role of collections and field research (S. Knapp) 181
16. Field methods for inventorying insects (C. L. Häuser and K. Riede) 190
17. From seabed to world wide web: an overview of marine zoological sampling, data processing and potential production of digital marine faunas (A. L. Allcock) 214
18. Advancements in electronic data capture for botanical field research in temperate regions (M. F. Watson, A. G. Miller, M. R. Pullan, C. Pendry and S. G. Knees) 226


Part IV. New Technologies: Their Current Use and Future Potential 245

19. Extending floras and faunas to include users' views (A. L. Weitzman and C. H. C. Lyal) 247
20. Taxa, taxon names and globally unique identifiers in perspective (R. Hyam) 260
21. E-publishing descriptive taxonomy: the convergence of taxonomic journals and databases (V. S. Smith) 272
22. DNA barcoding in floral and faunal research (S. E. Miller) 296


Index 312