Finalist for 2009 The Council on Botanical & Horticultural Libraries Literature Award!A Fresh Look at Taxonomy The most fundamental of all biological sciences, taxonomy underpins any long term strateg
More than 99 percent of all life that has ever existed on this planet is extinct. Moreover, human acceleration of the extinction of species has created a crisis in biodiversity. How can the history of
The order Diptera (true flies) contains an estimated 240,000 species of flies, mosquitos, gnats, midges, etc. although only about half have been described. Pape (Zoological Museum, Natural History Mus
