The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?

RH Cowie, P Bouchet, B Fontaine - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused
by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may …

Future of DNA-based insect monitoring

PYS Chua, SJ Bourlat, C Ferguson, P Korlevic, L Zhao… - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Insects are crucial for ecosystem health but climate change and pesticide use are driving
massive insect decline. To mitigate this loss, we need new and effective monitoring …

[PDF][PDF] Bioinvasion impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health in the Mediterranean Sea

K Tsirintanis, E Azzurro, F Crocetta, M Dimiza… - Aquatic …, 2022 - amu.hal.science
Biological invasions have become a defining feature of marine Mediterranean ecosystems
with significant impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health. We …

Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature

P Guedes, F Alves-Martins, JM Arribas… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature | Nature Ecology & Evolution
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[HTML][HTML] The silent extinction of species and taxonomists—An appeal to science policymakers and legislators

I Löbl, B Klausnitzer, M Hartmann, FT Krell - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
The science of taxonomy, albeit being fundamental for all organismic research, has been
underfunded and undervalued for about two generations. We analyze how this could …

[HTML][HTML] How many metazoan species live in the world's largest mineral exploration region?

M Rabone, JH Wiethase, E Simon-Lledó, AM Emery… - Current biology, 2023 - cell.com
The global surge in demand for metals such as cobalt and nickel has created
unprecedented interest in deep-sea habitats with mineral resources. The largest area of …

From the mud to the tree: phylogeny of Austrolebias killifishes, new generic structure and description of a new species (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae)

F Alonso, GE Terán, WS Serra Alanís… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Killifishes (Cyprinodontiformes) are a group of fish that include a high proportion of small-
bodied species living in seasonal aquatic habitats, with narrow geographical distributions …

[PDF][PDF] DNA barcodes on their own are not enough to describe a species.

A Zamani, ZF Fric, HF Gante, T Hopkins… - Systematic …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Earth's biodiversity is still so poorly known that only about two million (Bánki et al., 2021) of
the estimated nine million or more eukaryotic species (Larsen et al., 2017; Mora et al., 2011) …

[HTML][HTML] Tightening the requirements for species diagnoses would help integrate DNA-based descriptions in taxonomic practice

FE Rheindt, P Bouchard, RL Pyle… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Modern advances in DNA sequencing hold the promise of facilitating descriptions of new
organisms at ever finer precision but have come with challenges as the major Codes of …

[HTML][HTML] From identification to forecasting: the potential of image recognition and artificial intelligence for aphid pest monitoring

P Batz, T Will, S Thiel, TM Ziesche… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Insect monitoring has gained global public attention in recent years in the context of insect
decline and biodiversity loss. Monitoring methods that can collect samples over a long …