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Correspondence
Nature 422, 661 (17 April 2003) | doi:10.1038/422661a
Progressing towards a biological names register
David J. Patterson1
- School of Biological Sciences, Heydon Laurence Building, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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Abstract
How taxonomy could harness the indexing and organizational powers of the Internet.
There is much current debate about the decline in the number of taxonomists at a time of increasing need to monitor and manage our biodiversity resources. Various people and organizations have called for a reinvention of taxonomy and for new strategies in the delivery of knowledge, with an emphasis on bioinformatics solutions using the Internet (see, for example, H.
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