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Systema Naturae 250 - The Linnaean Ark
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The advent of relational databasing and data storage capacity, coupled with revolutionary advances in molecular sequencing technology and specimen imaging, have led to a taxonomic renaissance. Systema Naturae 250 - The Linnaean Ark maps the origins of this renaissance, beginning with Linnaeus, through his "apostles", via the great unsung hero Charl
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Editor
- Contributors
- 1 The Major Historical Trends of Biodiversity Studies
- 2 Linnaeus
- 3 Daniel Rolander
- 4 Taxonomy and the Survival of Threatened Animal Species
- 5 Engineering a Linnaean Ark of Knowledge for a Deluge of Species
- 6 Historical Name-Bearing Types in Marine Molluscs An Impediment to Biodiversity Studies?
- 7 Flying after Linnaeus
- 8 e-Publish or Perish?
- 9 Reviving Descriptive Taxonomy after 250 Years
- 10 Provisional Nomenclature The On-Ramp to Taxonomic Names
- 11 Future Taxonomy
- 11 The Encyclopedia of Life
- 13 Future Taxonomy Today
- 14 The All Genera Index
- 15 Linnaeus–Sherborn–ZooBank
- 16 ZooBank
- 17 Celebrating 250 Dynamic Years of Nomenclatural Debates
- THE 1960S: ANOTHER gREAT DECADE FOR NOMENCLATuRAL DEBATE
- 18 250 Years of Swedish Taxonomy
- Appendix 1: Concordance of Linnaeus’s Names for Rolander’s Insects
- Appendix 2: A Partial List of Rolander’s Insects in De Geer’s Original Drawings
- Index