Systematic biology is a discipline rooted in collections. These collections play important
roles in research and conservation and are integral to our efforts to educate society about …

Hernández-Ledesma P., Berendsohn WG, Borsch Th., Mering S. von, Akhani H., Arias S.,
Castañeda-Noa I., Eggli U., Eriksson R., Flores-Olvera H., Fuentes-Bazán S., Kadereit G …

Systematics is the science of discovering, organizing and interpreting the diversity of all
living organisms. Recent developments in genomics and biodiversity informatics are …

Unprecedented changes in the Earth's biota are prompting urgent efforts to describe and
conserve plant diversity. For centuries, botanical monographs—comprehensive systematic …

We present the model and implementation of a workflow that blazes a trail in systematic
biology for the re-usability of character data (data on any kind of characters of pheno-and …

 Abstract The Gynoxyoid clade of the Senecioneae (Asteraceae) until now included the five
genera Aequatorium, Gynoxys, Nordenstamia, Paracalia and Paragynoxys as diagnosed …

Taxonomic data is essential to advance the discovery and description of biodiversity, as well
as the study of evolutionary processes. Emerging large-scale datasets and new methods of …

Background As biological disciplines extend into the 'big data'world, they will need a names-
based infrastructure to index and interconnect distributed data. The infrastructure must have …

The need for taxonomists to take full advantage of biodiversity informatics has been clear for
at least 10 years. Significant progress has been made in providing access to taxonomic …

During a recent floristic survey in the Jalapão region, located in the state of Tocatins, Brazil,
the second collection of Mimosa flabellifolia, a species known only from the type material …