Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 256 pages
- Published by: CRC
- Edition: 1st Edition April 9, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0849390885
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0849390883
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
- Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Product Description
Initiatives reinventing taxonomy for the Internet generation are leading to a dramatic resurgence in this once declining discipline. Looking at the efforts of several groups to catalog the world’s biodiversity and make it accessible , this work discusses the future of descriptive taxonomy. It covers such technology as DNA evidence and its applications, computer-assisted species identification, digital morphology, and E-typification. It also provides insight into effective ways of organizing taxonomic information, and discusses what benefits can be leveraged from a rapid growth of taxonomic knowledge.