Instead, a few of these issues are highlighted below, specifically in the context of taxonomic and phylogenic obstacles: ancestry, variation, and biological complexity. Among fossils, variation ...

The definition for taxonomy is that it’s the study and classification of living and extinct forms of life. It divides all of life into groups known as taxa, where a single taxon represents a ...

The Endangered Species Act’s five-year-review process provides for periodic assessment of every species’ conservation status and allows for new scientific information to be brought forward, including ...

DURING the last decade taxonomy has not merely experienced a revival but has also become one of the active growing points of biology. It is the focus round which genetics, ecology, field natural ...

A digital taxonomic collection, featuring 58 biological volumes and descriptions of over 50,000 species of plants and animals. A multimedia, user-friendly guide to ciliated protozoa (ciliates), an ...

evolutionary biology, conservation, and management of natural populations and communities, as well as in taxonomy and systematics, and in computational biology. Did you know? LUOVA's Wildlife Biology ...

and I teach at the University of Michigan Biological Station during summers. I am interested in the taxonomy, systematics, evolution and ecology of diatoms, particularly freshwater taxa. I also study ...