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

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

(2013) Ronald Sluys   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Taxonomy: no decline, but inertia

(2013) Elise Tancoigne et al.   CLADISTICS

Does counting species count as taxonomy? On misrepresenting systematics, yet again

(2013) Marcelo R. de Carvalho et al.   CLADISTICS

The spatio-temporal colonization and diversification across the Indo-Pacific by a 'great speciator' (Aves, Erythropitta erythrogaster)

(2013) M. Irestedt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Taxonomic revision of Myrmeciza (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) into 12 genera based on phylogenetic, morphological, behavioral, and ecological data 

(2013) MORTON L. ISLER et al.   ZOOTAXA

Regression with Empirical Variable Selection: Description of a New Method and Application to Ecological Datasets

(2012) Anne E. Goodenough et al.   PLoS One

A Trans-Amazonian Screening of mtDNA Reveals Deep Intraspecific Divergence in Forest Birds and Suggests a Vast Underestimation of Species Diversity

(2012) Borja Milá et al.   PLoS One

Recovery Plan for the Endangered Taxonomy Profession

(2011) David L. Pearson et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Non-monophyly and intricate morphological evolution within the avian family Cettiidae revealed by multilocus analysis of a taxonomically densely sampled dataset

(2011) Per Alström et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

A Passerine Bird's Evolution Corroborates the Geologic History of the Island of New Guinea

(2011) Kristy Deiner et al.   PLoS One

Predicting Total Global Species Richness Using Rates of Species Description and Estimates of Taxonomic Effort

(2011) Mark J. Costello et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The population ecology and social behaviour of taxonomists

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

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

(2011) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Using information theory as a substitute for stepwise regression in ecology and behavior

(2010) Gergely Hegyi et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Cryptic genetic diversity in “widespread” Southeast Asian bird species suggests that Philippine avian endemism is gravely underestimated

(2010) David J. Lohman et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves)

(2010) Irby J. Lovette et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

How Many Endangered Species Remain to be Discovered in Brazil?

(2010) Stuart L. Pimm et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

How many species of flowering plants are there?

(2010) L. N. Joppa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Integrative taxonomy, or iterative taxonomy?

(2010) DAVID K. YEATES et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Increasing numbers of bird species result from taxonomic progress, not taxonomic inflation

(2009) G. Sangster   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fossil quality and naming dinosaurs

(2008) M. J. Benton   Biology Letters

The sympatric breeding of Common and Scottish Crossbills Loxia curvirostra and L. scotica and the evolution of crossbills

(2008) ALAN G. KNOX   IBIS

New species, high standards and the case of Laniarius liberatus

(2008) NIGEL J. COLLAR   IBIS

The Golden-spectacled Warbler: a complex of sibling species, including a previously undescribed species

(2008) Per Alström et al.   IBIS

Phylogeographic patterns of differentiation in the Acorn Woodpecker

(2008) Magali Honey-Escandón et al.   Wilson Journal of Ornithology