Sentences with phrase «years taxonomists»

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

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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».

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.