Sentences with phrase «by taxonomists»

The calico aster is a native of eastern North America and, although known in the trade as Aster lateriflorus, has been reclassified by taxonomists as Symphiotrichum lateriflorum.

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This pepper, first described by Ruiz and Pavon (1794) never received wide attention from taxonomists until recently (Eshbaugh 1979, 1982).

Since its discovery in 1822 by the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles, Rafflesia's family background has eluded botanists, says plant taxonomist Todd Barkman of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.

Tibetan Uplift Fools Taxonomists: An Identity Crisis Solved by Anne - Marie Hodge: The Tibetan ground tit (Parus humilis) is a drab, unassuming little songbird.

Thiers expects that the digital images will be most appreciated by field taxonomists — particularly those in tropical countries, whose biota is largely cataloged in museums up north.

The environmental organization reached out to a taxonomist in Florida, who in turn contacted a predator hunter and tracker in Texas by the name of Roy McBride.

But perhaps the most important part of the top down study is the knowledge held by expert potato taxonomists who have long histories of geographically extensive work.

A group spearheaded by Arizona State University taxonomists wants to launch a NASA - style mission to identify and describe all the world's 10 million species in the next 50 years.

To make that determination by traditional means, you need a taxonomist like Fisher with years of postgraduate training.

In 1914, taxonomist Oldfield Thomas of the Natural History Museum in London dealt the wolf a final, posthumous insult by naming it Dusicyon australis: foolish dog of the south.

Looked down on with scepticism by many taxonomists, handling big data efficiently is a huge challenge that can only be met with thorough and multi-layered efforts from both scientists and technological developers.

In an attempt to settle the debate, an international team led by Vincent Smith, a taxonomist and expert on lice evolution at the Natural History Museum in London, turned to the tiny louse — a parasitic insect that infests birds and mammals and is thought to have evolved alongside them — for new insights.

And did the 12 - year - old Beuys, now in the Hitler Youth, join the Sternmarch to Nuremberg in 1933, and rescue the Systema Naturae by Linnaeus, the great Swedish naturalist and taxonomist, from the flames of the book - burning pyre?

The list is put together by an international committee of taxonomists from ESF's International Institute for Species Exploration (IISE).