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

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    2012-03-27
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    Wheeler, Q. D.  Concept link
    Knapp, Sandra  Concept link
    Stevenson, D. W.  Concept link
    Stevenson, J.  Concept link
    Blum, Stan D.  Concept link
    Boom, B.. M.  Concept link
    Borisy, Gary G.  Concept link
    Buizer, James L.  Concept link
    De Carvalho, M. R.  Concept link
    Cibrian, A.  Concept link
    Donoghue, M. J.  Concept link
    Doyle, V.  Concept link
    Gerson, E. M.  Concept link
    Graham, C. H.  Concept link
    Graves, P.  Concept link
    Graves, Sara J.  Concept link
    Guralnick, Robert P.  Concept link
    Hamilton, A. L.  Concept link
    Hanken, J.  Concept link
    Law, W.  Concept link
    Lipscomb, D. L.  Concept link
    Lovejoy, T. E.  Concept link
    Miller, Holly  Concept link
    Miller, J. S.  Concept link
    Naeem, Shahid  Concept link
    Novacek, M. J.  Concept link
    Page, L. M.  Concept link
    Platnick, N. I.  Concept link
    Porter-Morgan, H.  Concept link
    Raven, Peter H.  Concept link
    Solis, M. A.  Concept link
    Valdecasas, A. G.  Concept link
    Van Der Leeuw, S.  Concept link
    Vasco, A.  Concept link
    Vermeulen, N.  Concept link
    Vogel, J.  Concept link
    Walls, R. L.  Concept link
    Wilson, E. O.  Concept link
    Woolley, J. B.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5119
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    https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2012.665095
    DOI
    10.1080/14772000.2012.665095
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     Biodiversity; Bioinformatics; Biomimicry; Biosphere; Conservation; Cyberinfrastructure; Ecology; Evolution; International collaboration; Organization of science; Origins; Species; Sustainability; Systematics; Taxonomy; Team work 
    Abstract
    The time is ripe for a comprehensive mission to explore and document Earth's species. This calls for a campaign to educate and inspire the next generation of professional and citizen species explorers, investments in cyber-infrastructure and collections to meet the unique needs of the producers and consumers of taxonomic information, and the formation and coordination of a multi-institutional, international, transdisciplinary community of researchers, scholars and engineers with the shared objective of creating a comprehensive inventory of species and detailed map of the biosphere. We conclude that an ambitious goal to describe 10 million species in less than 50 years is attainable based on the strength of 250 years of progress, worldwide collections, existing experts, technological innovation and collaborative teamwork. Existing digitization projects are overcoming obstacles of the past, facilitating collaboration and mobilizing literature, data, images and specimens through cyber technologies. Charting the biosphere is enormously complex, yet necessary expertise can be found through partnerships with engineers, information scientists, sociologists, ecologists, climate scientists, conservation biologists, industrial project managers and taxon specialists, from agrostologists to zoophytologists. Benefits to society of the proposed mission would be profound, immediate and enduring, from detection of early responses of flora and fauna to climate change to opening access to evolutionary designs for solutions to countless practical problems. The impacts on the biodiversity, environmental and evolutionary sciences would be transformative, from ecosystem models calibrated in detail to comprehensive understanding of the origin and evolution of life over its 3.8 billion year history. The resultant cyber-enabled taxonomy, or cybertaxonomy, would open access to biodiversity data to developing nations, assure access to reliable data about species, and change how scientists and citizens alike access, use and think about biological diversity information.
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    Author Posting. © The Natural History Museum, 2012. This article is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for reuse for non-commercial purposes only. The definitive version was published in Systematics and Biodiversity 10 (2012): 1-20, doi:10.1080/14772000.2012.665095.
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    Systematics and Biodiversity 10 (2012): 1-20
     

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