Sentences with phrase «more taxonomists»
New databases show that there are more taxonomists describing species than ever before, and their number is increasing faster than the rate of species description.
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The group includes Heinrich Engler, an Old World taxonomist — a name - popper without equal; Frederick Clements, complete with hat, New World champion of the concept of succession, climax and the superorganism (shades of Gaia to come), and Henry Cowles, whose festschrift published 22 years later not only celebrated his work in the field of ecology but was also the vehicle within which the botanist Sir Arthur George Tansley enunciated the term and the concept of the ecosystem: «More than the sum of its parts».
For tarantula taxonomists of the past, this posed a frustrating challenge, resulting in classifications that divided tarantulas into many more species than the group required, Hamilton found.
More than 200 taxonomists from 46 countries convened at London's Natural History Museum to hammer out protocols for a massive DNA «barcoding» effort — a move to collect specific gene tags from every organism on Earth.
To put DNA barcoding to its first truly comprehensive test, taxonomists Christopher Meyer and Gustav Paulay, of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, spent more than ten years collecting tissue samples from sea cowries across the globe.