…difficult to know what is already known. Identifying even well-studied organisms in backyards, such as North American ants for example, may require graduate-level training. As taxonomic knowledge moves increasingly onto…
…tissue collection in the world with about 40,000 specimens; searching “LSU AND aves[organism] AND voucher” returned only 1,148 records, which seems likely to underrepresent the museum’s contribution. Results for some…
…world of plants and animals, we have a far weaker grasp on the question of whether global microbial diversity is increasing, decreasing, or staying the same. In an article published…
…edition of the Italian financial newspaper, Il Sole/24 Ore, on 17 November 1999; also in Italian as Benvenuti nel millennio nucleare, pp.163-168 in Duemila: Verso una societa aperta, M. Moussanet,…
The Rockefeller University issues a press release about our new paper with Paul Hebert & Co. on DNA barcoding of North American birds….
…stores use to track merchandise, he named these short sequences “DNA barcodes.” My colleagues and I set down thoughts inspired by this new name: “Commercial barcodes and the barcode of…
…project including Mark Schaefer, Assistant Director for Environment, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Margaret Hamburg, M.D., Commissioner, New York City Department of Health; Debora Martin, U.S. Environmental…
We have posted an article that appeared today in Science magazine, “Temperate Forests Gain Ground”, that discusses the paper “Searching for Leverage to Conserve Forests: The Industrial Ecology of Wood…
…Decoupling for Conservation. Jesse’s remarks begin at 29′ 15″ and run 8 minutes (scroll down to the video box & use slider). The video begins with Linus Blomqvist’s introduction of…