Lack of well-maintained natural history collections and taxonomists in megadiverse developing countries hampers global biodiversity exploration

Biodiversity, Taxonomic Infrastructure, International Collaboration, and New Species Discovery

(2014) Michael L. Grieneisen et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Declining Rates of Species Described per Taxonomist: Slowdown of Progress or a Side-effect of Improved Quality in Taxonomy?

(2014) George Sangster et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Global species richness estimates have not converged

(2014) M. Julian Caley et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The unappreciated, fundamentally analytical nature of taxonomy and the implications for the inventory of biodiversity

(2013) Ronald Sluys   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The discovery of historically extinct, but hitherto undescribed, species: an under-appreciated element in extinction-rate assessments

(2013) David L. Hawksworth et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Taxonomy: no decline, but inertia

(2013) Elise Tancoigne et al.   CLADISTICS

Can We Name Earth's Species Before They Go Extinct?

(2013) M. J. Costello et al.   SCIENCE

More Taxonomists Describing Significantly Fewer Species per Unit Effort May Indicate That Most Species Have Been Discovered

(2013) Mark J. Costello et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

One hundred and one new species of Trigonopterus weevils from New Guinea

(2013) Alexander Riedel et al.   ZooKeys

Failure to achieve 2010 biodiversity’s target in developing countries: How can conservation help?

(2012) Ademola A. Adenle   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The Young Systematists special issue—promoting the scientific work of early career scientists in taxonomy and systematics

(2012) André Koch et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

First Large-Scale DNA Barcoding Assessment of Reptiles in the Biodiversity Hotspot of Madagascar, Based on Newly Designed COI Primers

(2012) Zoltán T. Nagy et al.   PLoS One

Impediment to Taxonomy and Its Impact on Biodiversity Science: An Indian Perspective

(2012) G. H. Dar et al.   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India. Section B

Mapping the biosphere: exploring species to understand the origin, organization and sustainability of biodiversity

(2012) Q. D. Wheeler et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

What we know and don’t know about Earth's missing biodiversity

(2012) Brett R. Scheffers et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Recovery Plan for the Endangered Taxonomy Profession

(2011) David L. Pearson et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Are We Losing the Science of Taxonomy?

(2011) Lisa W. Drew   BIOSCIENCE

The taxonomist - an endangered race. A practical proposal for its survival

(2011) Heike Wägele et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Species delimitations – not ‘only descriptive’

(2011) Gerhard Haszprunar   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

The population ecology and social behaviour of taxonomists

(2011) Lucas N. Joppa et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The costs of describing the entire animal kingdom

(2011) Fernando Carbayo et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Still not enough taxonomists: reply to Joppa et al.

(2011) Sven Bacher   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Time to change how we describe biodiversity

(2011) Andrew R. Deans et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Discovering the Brazilian bat fauna: a task for two centuries?

(2010) Enrico BERNARD et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Time to automate identification

(2010) Norman MacLeod et al.   NATURE

Species Diversity and Distribution Patterns of the Ants of Amazonian Ecuador

(2010) Kari T. Ryder Wilkie et al.   PLoS One

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

(2010) S. H. M. Butchart et al.   SCIENCE