Our Discovery Mission
Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to discover and document all remaining Australian species of plants, animals, fungi and other organisms ... in a generation.
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How on Earth are we going to do this?
Roundtable 7: What can (and should) change in current practice to enable our mission?
Session 1
28 April 2020 at 1:30:00 am
Mark Harvey
Leader(s):
Taxonomy has a rich history and tradition. A downside of this is that some practices that may once have been strengths may now be weaknesses. This roundtable will critically examine all aspects of current taxonomic business-as-usual and try to identify those practices that remain valuable and those that we should consider changing to help with this mission. Issues examined will include:
Is the traditional taxonomic revision fit-for-purpose for an all-species mission?
What publication practices serve us well and which do not?
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Kym Abrams
University of Western Australia/ Dept of Water and Environmental Regulation
Katharina Nargar
Australian Tropical Herbarium & National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO
