Sentences with word «taxonomist»

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

Their study, published in the open access journal Zookeys, comes as a fine example illustrating the important role played by taxonomists in puzzling out the Earth's biodiversity.

So far, he says, their contribution to global biodiversity has gone unrecognised because there are only about twenty active marine nematode taxonomists in the world.

«There are pictures of people swimming up to these, riding on them as a diver, sticking their head in the opening,» said Moira Galbraith, a zooplankton taxonomist at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney, B.C.

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.

«We don't completely understand the evolutionary processes behind sex, or even its benefits,» says taxonomist David J. Patterson of the Marine Biological Laboratory, who was neither involved in Spiegel's piece nor the study of amoeba asexuality from which it stemmed.

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.

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.

With so many curious characteristics, sponges have always been hard for taxonomists to place.

Taxonomists need to stop holding out pigheadedly for «the big one,» the ultimate concept that covers all species, he says.

[6] and most taxonomists already split it into Californian scrub jay, A. californica, and Woodhouse's scrub jay, A. woodhouseii.

Later taxonomists wised up and created the Capsicum genus, to which all chile peppers belong.

In 1758 the Swedish taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus dubbed our species Homo sapiens, Latin for «wise man.»

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

Today is the 291th 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.

I am, after all, a Forensic Taxonomist.

Currently taxonomists working mostly individually name about 20,000 species a year.

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

Taxonomists play a critical role in this process,» explains the lead author.

The old taxonomists assumed that these could be different species or subspecies.

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.

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.

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.

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

In addition to dealing with asexuality, early taxonomists had to sort amoebas that resembled plants, fungi and animals.

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.

An editorial in The Economist not long ago suggested that the scientific currency is «being subtly debauched by over-eager taxonomists.»

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

For years taxonomists tended to follow the «biological species» concept.

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.

As a result, past taxonomists had categorized the variants as subspecies at best, meaning that although they bred together, they were morphologically or geographically distinct.

He derided rivals as «armchair taxonomists» and asserted that some of them had «never personally analyzed any species populations or studied species in nature.»

Because as Jerry Coyne, evolutionary biologist, says in his book, Why Evolution is True, if an extraterrestrial taxonomist came to earth and looked at the fossil remains of many of the different breeds of dog that we all consider a single species, there's no way he would categorize them as a single species.

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

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.

Because humans (taxonomists included) are diurnal and hence visual creatures, we tend to place a strong emphasis on appearances.

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.

«One species described multiple times: How taxonomists contribute to biodiversity discovery.»

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.

As individual taxonomists choose their pet concepts, ««species» are often created or dismissed arbitrarily,» argued two researchers from Australia in the June 1 Nature.

With Neal Williams, at the time a graduate student in her then Princeton University laboratory, and Robbin Thorp, a renowned bee taxonomist, Kremen studied watermelon pollination in California's Central Valley.

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.

Today, taxonomists recognize three spider groups.

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.

Most taxonomists agree that primates — apes, humans, monkeys, and real lemurs — belong to a larger group called Euarchonta, which also includes flying lemurs and tree shrews.