Authors
Michael S Engel, Luis MP Ceríaco, Gimo M Daniel, Pablo M Dellapé, Ivan Löbl, Milen Marinov, Roberto E Reis, Mark T Young, Alain Dubois, Ishan Agarwal, Pablo Lehmann A, Mabel Alvarado, Nadir Alvarez, Franco Andreone, Katyuscia Araujo-Vieira, John S Ascher, Délio Baêta, Diego Baldo, Suzana A Bandeira, Phillip Barden, Diego A Barrasso, Leila Bendifallah, Flávio A Bockmann, Wolfgang Böhme, Art Borkent, Carlos RF Brandão, Stephen D Busack, Seth M Bybee, Alan Channing, Stylianos Chatzimanolis, Maarten JM Christenhusz, Jorge V Crisci, Guillermo D’elía, Luis M Da Costa, Steven R Davis, Carlos Alberto S De Lucena, Thierry Deuve, Sara Fernandes Elizalde, Julián Faivovich, Harith Farooq, Adam W Ferguson, Spartaco Gippoliti, Francisco MP Gonçalves, Victor H Gonzalez, Eli Greenbaum, Ismael A Hinojosa-Díaz, Ivan Ineich, Jianping Jiang, Sih Kahono, Adriano B Kury, Paulo HF Lucinda, John D Lynch, Valéry Malécot, Mariana P Marques, John WM Marris, Ryan C Mckellar, Luis F Mendes, Silvio S Nihei, Kanto Nishikawa, Annemarie Ohler, Victor GD Orrico, Hidetoshi Ota, Jorge Paiva, Diogo Parrinha, Olivier SG Pauwels, Martín O Pereyra, Lueji B Pestana, Paulo DP Pinheiro, Lorenzo Prendini, Jakub Prokop, Claus Rasmussen, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, Sara M Rodríguez, Hearty Salatnaya, Íris Sampaio, Alba Sánchez-García, Mohamed A Shebl, Bruna S Santos, Mónica M Solórzano-Kraemer, Ana CA Sousa, Pavel Stoev, Pablo Teta, Jean-François Trape, Carmen Van-Dúnem Dos Santos, Karthikeyan Vasudevan, Cor J Vink, Gernot Vogel, Philipp Wagner, Torsten Wappler, Jessica L Ware, Sonja Wedmann, Chifundera Kusamba Zacharie
Publication date
2021/10/1
Source
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Volume
193
Issue
2
Pages
381-387
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Description
For almost 30 years, there have been active discussions about the taxonomic impediment and the challenge this represents to address the current human-induced biodiversity crisis. From the start (Systematics Agenda 2000, 1994), the term ‘taxonomic impediment’has been ambiguous, designating both the insufficiency and inadequacy of the resources put to the service of taxonomy (the taxonomic impediment sensu stricto) and its main consequence, the wide discrepancy between the reality of specific biodiversity and our knowledge of it (the taxonomic gap; Dubois, 2010; Raposo et al., 2020). The total number of species on our planet is unknown, and its various estimates (using different methods) are widely divergent, but consensus exists that we are far from having inventoried half, and most likely one-tenth, of the species still present on earth today (González-Oreja, 2008).
Meanwhile, the biodiversity crisis has …
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