Some people despair that most species will go extinct before they are discovered. However,
such worries result from overestimates of how many species may exist, beliefs that the …

Purpose–This paper seeks to problematise “accounting for biodiversity” and to provide a
framework for analysing and understanding the role of accounting in preserving and …

Purpose We are currently experiencing what is often called the sixth period of mass
extinction on planet Earth, caused undoubtedly by the impact of human activities and …

The last 50 years have witnessed rapid changes in the ways that natural history specimens
are collected, preserved, analyzed, and documented. Those changes have produced …

Abstract The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL, http://eol. org) aims to provide unprecedented
global access to a broad range of information about life on Earth. It currently contains 3.5 …

Concerns over data quality impede the use of public biodiversity databases and subsequent
benefits to society. Data publication could follow the well-established publication process …

While powerful and user-friendly software suites exist for phylogenetics, and an impressive
cybertaxomic infrastructure of online species databases has been set up in the past two …

In spite of the growth of molecular ecology, systematics and next-generation sequencing, the
discovery and analysis of diversity is not currently integrated with building the tree-of-life …

Taxonomic monographs have the potential to make a unique contribution to the
understanding of global biodiversity. However, such studies, now rare, are often considered …

Delimiting and describing species is fundamental to numerous biological disciplines such as
evolution, macroecology, and conservation. Delimiting species as independent evolutionary …