Sentences with phrase «taxonomists included»

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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.

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 have described 349 newly discovered mammals since 1992, including an elephant shrew from Tanzania early this year.

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.

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.

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.