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"I don't know any person who's done more to foster biodiversity science," Dr. Hebert said of Mr. Ausubel.
Flushed with such an easy victory, Brown persuaded the museum to launch a three-year research initiative called Biodiversity Science: City and Nature (BioSCAN).
The notion is for an "Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" to marshal biodiversity science in a fashion that has intergovernmental standing.
DNA-based species identification, known as barcoding, transformed the traditional approach to the study of biodiversity science.
However, outdoor plant collections and landscape provide limited information for interpreting the field of biodiversity science as a whole.
"The idea is ingenious," says Hannelore Hoch, a biologist studying planthoppers at the Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science in Berlin.
Scientists and policymakers are meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, this week as part of the international DIVERSITAS program of biodiversity science.
The rise of informatics has presented new opportunities for analyzing, visualizing, and interacting with data across the sciences, and biodiversity science is no exception.
Conservation projects are time sensitive, research funding is becoming restricted, and informed decisions depend on our ability to embrace integrative approaches to biodiversity science.
So says Yale University plant evolutionary biologist Michael Donoghue, who unveiled a plan today by DIVERSITAS, the scientific board that provides scientific expertise for the Convention on Biological Diversity, to get these researchers more involved in biodiversity science.
