Knowing the earth's biodiversity: Challenges for the infrastructure of systematic biology

Science

Volumn 274, Issue 5284, 1996, Pages 63-64

  Blackmore, Stephen ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0029763169     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5284.63     Document Type: Short Survey

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12. The UK Systematics Forum is funded by the Office of Science and Technology as part of the government response to the 1992 House of Lords report (5). It has a committee drawn from institutes with substantial biological collections and is available on the Internet at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/uksf/
13. The NERC Taxonomy Initiative started in 1993, following a report by J. Krebs [Evolution and Biodiversity: the New Taxonomy (NERC, 1992)] in response to the 1992 House of Lords report (5).
14. D. H. Janzen, Am. Entomol. 37, 159 (1994); in Proceedings of the Norway/UNEP Expert Conference on Biodiversity, Trondheim, Norway, O. T. Sandland and P. J. Schei, Eds. (NINA, Trondheim, 1993), pp. 100-113; Association of Systematic Collections Bulletin, in press.
15. D. H. Janzen, Am. Entomol. 37, 159 (1994); in Proceedings of the Norway/UNEP Expert Conference on Biodiversity, Trondheim, Norway, O. T. Sandland and P. J. Schei, Eds. (NINA, Trondheim, 1993), pp. 100-113; Association of Systematic Collections Bulletin, in press.
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17. Type specimens are the reference specimens to which the application of a particular species name is anchored.
18. This Policy Forum is based on a presentation at the symposium on "The Science of Biodiversity" organized during the AAAS 1996 Annual Meeting and Science Exposition by A. Roosevelt and P. R. Crane.