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Discover Magazine named the Census of Marine Life one of “The Six Most Important Experiments in the World” in its December 2007 issue. We are proud to have helped create…
Discover Magazine named the Census of Marine Life one of “The Six Most Important Experiments in the World” in its December 2007 issue. We are proud to have helped create…
Marine zooplankton comprise an enormous mass of diverse organisms distributed throughout the world’s oceans from deep waters to surface. Zooplankton include representatives of at least dozen phyla, some of which…
…absurd when applied to the large number of animal species that show low intraspecific variation. For example 97% of the 263 world cowrie species show constrained intraspecific variation (Meyer and…
…waters to spawn. High demand has fueled intensive fishing by international fleets, resulting in 90% population declines heading towards extinction for all three species, Southern (Thunnus maccoyii), Northern (T. thynnus),…
What lives in soil? In August 2009 Pesq Agropec Bras (open access) an international cohort of 10 researchers from Canada, France, US, Taiwan, and Russia examine prospects for speeding assessment…
…status. Of the species examined so far (I estimate about 1/3 of the 10,000 world birds), most demonstrate a similar patterning of limited mtDNA differences within species and relatively large…
…name specimens, regardless of life stage. It does not make sense to rely on reference works for the world’s mosquitos that are incomprehensible to anyone who is not already a…
…for a personal view of the program, read Jesse’s poem, The Census of Marine Life is about the total richness of the sea, the foreword to Life in the World’s…
…of Life (EOL), Catalog of Life, World Register of Marine Species (WorMS), and Google images, among others. Having all that, inspired by Matt Damon’s character in The Bourne Ultimatum, we…
…small industry of birding guides and optics, and was a driving force in the much larger social transformation in awareness of the natural world and human impact. I see the…