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- Title
The importance of applying Standardised Integrative Taxonomy when describing marine benthic organisms and collecting ecological data.
- Authors
Di Camillo, Cristina Gioia; Gravili, Cinzia; De Vito, Doris; Pica, Daniela; Piraino, Stefano; Puce, Stefania; Cerrano, Carlo
- Abstract
The decline of morphologically based taxonomy is mainly linked to increasing species redundancy, which probably contributed to a worldwide disinterest in taxonomy, and to a reduction of funding for systematic biology and for expertise training. The present trend in the study of biodiversity is integrated taxonomy, which merges morphological and molecular approaches. At the same time, in many cases new molecular techniques have eclipsed the morphological approach. The application of Standardised Integrative Taxonomy, i.e. a rigorous, common method of description based on the integration between ecological and morphological characteristics, may increase the precision, acceßibility, exploitability and longevity of the collected data, and favour the renaißance of taxonomy by new investments in biodiversity exploration.
- Subjects
BENTHIC ecology; BENTHIC animals; SPECIES distribution; BIODIVERSITY conservation; GLOBAL environmental change
- Publication
Invertebrate Systematics, 2018, Vol 32, Issue 4, p794
- ISSN
1445-5226
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1071/IS17067