Toward a Census of Marine Life
…official homepage of the COML is www.CoML.org. What did live in the oceans? What does live in the oceans? What will live in the oceans? These questions, compelling for society…
…official homepage of the COML is www.CoML.org. What did live in the oceans? What does live in the oceans? What will live in the oceans? These questions, compelling for society…
…to create Postscript and PDF versions. All these tools are available in the excellent teTeX-1.0 distribution, available at https://www.tug.org/tetex/. You can find more information on TeX at the TeX users group, https://www.tug.org….
…before propeller-driven ships and boats spanned the globe? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-climate-research-i/pandemic-offers-scientists-unprecedented-chance-to-hear-oceans-as-they-once-were-idUSKBN23F1M3 even picked up by the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/08/us/08reuters-health-coronavirus-climate-research-insight.html and in the hard copy edition of the Washington Post. The 2009…
Way back in 1999, Jesse Ausubel, Fred Grassle, Mark Costello, Edward van den Berghe, James Edwards and others began to envisage an on-line ocean biogeographical information system (OBIS) to enable…
…www.barcodinglife.org. Sequences from outside North America are flocking in, including a recent set from western Australian parrots, contributed by Peter Spencer, Murdoch University. Quoting P. Spencer “these species are generally…
…as a means of species discovery (for more, see www.barcoding.si.edu; www.barcodinglife.org). In addition to helping identify what is already known, DNA analysis can reveal what would otherwise remain hidden. In…
…authors report, “in the course of this study, we found several examples of erroneous taxonomic assignments (e.g. Sapindaceae identified as Cypripedium, Cypripedioideae; Apocynaceae labelled as Sesamum, Pedaliaceae; one case of…
…hybridization, recent radiations, and high rates of gene transfer from mtDNA to the nucleus.” As of today, the BOLD taxonomy browser at Phylum Chordata, Class Aves (www.boldsystems.org/views/taxbrowser.php?taxid=51 indicates over 24,000…
The Sunday 5 June Independent published an excellent article about forests by Andrew Marszal that reports on our recent analysis of forest density….