Sentences with phrase «of taxonomists»

Every year since 2008, a team of taxonomists from SUNY's Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) International Institute for Species Exploration (IISE) have been pouring over the previous year's new species discoveries to select their favorite 10 for an annual shout - out.

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

A new generation of taxonomists will be needed to perform these tasks, but the recent creation of a South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) and South African Biosystematics Initiative (SABI) has increased the availability of funding and encouraged young researchers to enter this field.

Each year an international committee of taxonomists — those who name and classify new species — gather at the IISE to discuss the newly named specimens and whittle them down to a top 10.

To commemorate Carl Linnaeus's Birthday, an international committee of taxonomists has released its annual roundup of the most noteworthy newly discovered species

One of the functions of taxonomists is to determine if a species is new or if it has already been described.

Taxonomy is disappearing from school curricula and few universities offer courses, leaving the RBGE to do the hard work of educating the next generation of taxonomists.

There is the painstaking work of taxonomists who continue to catalogue the earth's estimated 10 quintillion insects; the Greek island beekeepers; and the Zika - fighting mosquitoes in Brazil.

«I apologize for the questions, I'm somewhat of a taxonomist.»

Not exact matches

If these beetles do primarily feed on slime mold, I'd say the taxonomist that named them really did think about the etymology of the binomen before naming them.

Without the advantage of genetic insight these early collectors and taxonomists named these many size, shape, and color forms as distinct taxa giving us a plethora of plant names that have only recently been sorted out reducing a long list of synonymy to four domesticated species.

Enter the amoeba: a collection of blobby, typically asexual microorganisms that taxonomists have historically swept under the rug as evolutionary oddities.

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.

«Pull out the genitalia,» says Maxi Polihronakis, a beetle taxonomist at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, «and often everything becomes clear.»

The taxonomist Linnaeus later suggested that Australia be named Banksia in honor of Banks's contribution to Australian natural history.

Taxonomists could become «like expert witnesses,» says Kent Redford of the Wildlife Conservation Society Institute.

Once the tuna has been caught and cut up, even taxonomist have trouble identifying the exact specie of tuna, such as Northern, Pacific, and Southern.

But to E. O. Wilson, the Harvard evolutionist and taxonomist, this kind of thinking sounds woefully incomplete.

However, other taxonomists note that the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry overlooked some microbial species that could be considered similarly divisive.

Interpreting the scales as a sign of an early moth proboscis is «possible,» says taxonomist Erik van Nieukerken of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, whose specialties include early moths.

Recently, taxonomists Dr. Mingqiang Wang, Dr. Fuqiang Chen, Prof. Chaodong Zhu and Prof. Chunsheng Wu of the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences described two genera and three species previously unknown to science discovered in southern China.

Ask a taxonomist to estimate Earth's total inventory of species, and they'll probably say 30 million.

The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) last week unveiled an online cornucopia for plant taxonomists: 2500 crisp digital photos of specimens from four vascular plant families.

NORMALLY thought of as mild - mannered and meticulous, taxonomists in Britain and the US are preparing to break out of their dusty back rooms to do battle with the European Patent Office.

Taxonomists had long divided moas into two types, one of which, Dinornis, included three species: a 5 - foot - tall bird, a 3 - foot dwarf, and a 10 - foot - tall, 550 - pound «supermoa.»

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».

Taxonomists are cleaning up and adding to the book of life on hundreds of thousands of known marine species — from plankton to sperm whales

The research stems from a chance encounter, when a cricket taxonomist found an invasive cricket in the home of one of the NC State researchers.

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.

About 3 dozen taxonomists, informatics experts, ecologists, sociologists, and computer scientists met this week at the New York Botanical Garden and decided that in the past decade, technological improvements — primarily related to molecular tools and the digitization of collections (such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library)-- make such a major undertaking possible.

Based on the photographs, taxonomists had thought that the grayish - brown monkey with its long, curling tail and the crest atop its head was a new species of mangabey, though it lacked that animal's distinctive call.

Taxonomist Ken Hill of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney and his co - workers reported this past year that both the cones and the DNA of the Wollemi pine place it in a family that includes pines such as the Chilean monkey puzzle tree and the New Zealand kauri pine.

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.

«Many Indian taxonomists continued to erroneously refer to the Indian populations of Danaus genutia as Danaus plexippus.»

Hamm, now a data scientist at Monsanto in Woodland, California, also knew that taxonomists since Carl Linnaeus have struggled to distinguish species in Lepidoptera, the order of insects to which monarchs belong.

Taxonomists have tried to reshuffle the Linnaean system in recent years to take common ancestry into account, but vestiges of the old thinking remain.

«Taxonomists would shoot me if I said, «Genes could replace taxonomy,» but for a lot of species, genes are the only data we're going to have.

Wednesday is the birthday of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, a French plant taxonomist born in 1778.

is the 292nd anniversary of the birth of Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish botanical taxonomist who was the first person to formulate and adhere to a uniform system for defining and naming the world's plants and animals.

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

Instead of being buried under a hundred lifetimes of unsorted specimens, taxonomists will be free to cut straight to difficult questions where their expertise can make a difference.

The classification of the clymene dolphin has been a longstanding challenge to taxonomists, who initially considered it to be a subspecies of the spinner dolphin.

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.

A new study of sea cowries --- marine gastropods famed for their exquisite shells --- indicates that DNA barcoding does not always allow taxonomists to tell the difference between closely related species.

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.

This binomial nomenclature guards against confusion if, say, a bug taxonomist and a mammal taxonomist (who tend to run in different scientific circles and probably are not reading each other's publications) want to (or inadvertently) assign the same species name to the group of organisms they happen to be excited about at the time.

American Society of Plant Taxonomists Department of Botany University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 - 3165 «Careers in Biological Systematics» Online: Careers in Biological Systematics Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] e-mail: [email protected]

Because of this striking life history, the semi-aquatic bugs have fascinated scientists from various disciplines, including naturalists, applied mathematicians, ecologists, Taxonomists, Palaeontologists, and recently developmental geneticists.

No one should ever accuse taxonomists of having no sense of humor or whimsy.