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What Species Mean: A User's Guide to the Units of Biodiversity: Species and Systematics

Autor Julia D. Sigwart
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iun 2022
Everyone uses species. All human cultures, whether using science or not, name species. Species are the basic units for science, from ecosystems to model organisms. Yet, there are communication gaps between the scientists who name species, called taxonomists or systematists, and those who use species names—everyone else. This book opens the "black box" of species names, to explain the tricks of the name-makers to the name-users. Species are real, and have macroevolutionary meaning, and it follows that systematists use a broadly macroevolution-oriented approach in describing diversity. But scientific names are used by all areas of science, including many fields such as ecology that focus on timescales more dominated by microevolutionary processes. This book explores why different groups of scientists understand and use the names given to species in very different ways, and the consequences for measuring and understanding biodiversity.
 
Key selling features:
  • Explains the modern, multi-disciplinary approach to studying species evolution and species discovery, and the role of species names in diverse fields throughout the life sciences
  • Documents the importance and urgent need for high-quality taxonomic work to address today’s most pressing problems
  • Summarises controversies in combining different—sometimes quite different—datasets used to estimate global biodiversity
  • Focusses throughout on a central theme—the disconnect between the makers and the users of names—and seeks to create the rhetorical foundation needed to bridge this disconnect
  • Anticipates the future of taxonomy and its role in studies of global biodiversity
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032338842
ISBN-10: 1032338849
Pagini: 260
Ilustrații: 19 Illustrations, color; 22 Illustrations, black and white; 19 Illustrations, color; 22 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: CRC Press
Colecția CRC Press
Seria Species and Systematics


Cuprins

1. Premise. 2. General concepts. 3. Everyone uses species. 4. Why do the names keep changing? 5. Species are units of evolution. 6. Natural patterns in classification. 7. Are species real? 8. How to name a species. 9. Biodiversity and extinction through time. 10. How many species are there? 11. Dynamic patterns in biodiversity. 12. Translating biodiversity across cultural barriers

Descriere

Everyone uses species names and yet there are communication gaps between those who who name species and those who use species names. This book is intended to explore why different groups of scientists understand and use taxa in very different ways, and the consequences for measuring and understanding biodiversity.