Systema naturae 250 : the Linnaean ark / edited by Andrew Polaszek. — Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2010. – (50.6/S995)

Contents

    Contents
    
    Preface vii
    Editor xiii
    Contributors xv
    Chapter 1 The Major Historical Trends of Biodiversity Studies 1
    Chapter 2 Linnaeus: A Passion for Order 5
    Chapter 3 Daniel Rolander: The Invisible Naturalist 11
    Chapter 4 Taxonomy and the Survival of Threatened Animal Species: A Matter of Life and Death 29
    Chapter 5 Engineering a Linnaean Ark of Knowledge for a Deluge of Species 53
    Chapter 6 Historical Name-Bearing Types in Marine Molluscs: An Impediment to Biodiversity Studies? 63
    Chapter 7 Flying after Linnaeus: Diptera Names since Systema Naturae (1758) 75
    Chapter 8 e-Publish or Perish? 83
    Chapter 9 Reviving Descriptive Taxonomy after 250 Years: Promising Signs from a Mega-Journal in Taxonomy 95
    Chapter 10 Provisional Nomenclature: The On-Ramp to Taxonomic Names 109
    Chapter 11 Future Taxonomy 117
    Chapter 12 The Encyclopedia of Life: A New Digital Resource for Taxonomy 127
    Chapter 13 Future Taxonomy Today: New Tools Applied to Accelerate the Taxonomic Process 137
    Chapter 14 The All Genera Index: Strategies for Managing the BIG Index of All Scientific Names 149
    Chapter 15 Linnaeus-Sherborn-ZooBank 163
    Chapter 16 ZooBank: Reviewing the First Year and Preparing for the Next 250 173
    Chapter 17 Celebrating 250 Dynamic Years of Nomenclatural Debates 185
    Chapter 18 250 Years of Swedish Taxonomy 241
    Appendix 1 Concordance of Linnaeus's Names for Rolander's Insects 253
    Appendix 2 A Partial List of Rolander's Insects in De Geer's Original Drawings 265
    Index 267