- Title
- Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation
- Creator
- Greenslade, Penelope
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/165646
- Identifier
- vital:13294
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075
- Identifier
- ISBN:1544-9173
- Abstract
- Taxonomy is a scientific discipline that has provided the universal naming and classification system of biodiversity for centuries and continues effectively to accommodate new knowledge. A recent publication by Garnett and Christidis [1] expressed concerns regarding the difficulty that taxonomic changes represent for conservation efforts and proposed the establishment of a system to govern taxonomic changes. Their proposal to "restrict the freedom of taxonomic action" through governing subcommittees that would "review taxonomic papers for compliance" and their assertion that "the scientific community's failure to govern taxonomy threatens the effectiveness of global efforts to halt biodiversity loss, damages the credibility of science, and is expensive to society" are flawed in many respects. They also assert that the lack of governance of taxonomy damages conservation efforts, harms the credibility of science, and is costly to society. Despite its fairly recent release, Garnett and Christidis' proposition has already been rejected by a number of colleagues [2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. Herein, we contribute to the conversation between taxonomists and conservation biologists aiming to clarify some misunderstandings and issues in the proposition by Garnett and Christidis. **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the Federation University Australia affiliate is provided in this record**
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Relation
- PLoS Biology Vol. 16, no. 3 (2018), p. 1-12
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
- Rights
- This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 06 Biomedical Sciences; 07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences; 11 Medical and Health Sciences; Biodiversity; Biology; Biomedicine; Endangered species; Global change; Organism forms; Species difference; Taxonomy
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