[Taxacom] Fwd: Re Funding biodiversity?

[Richard Zander]

The Linnaean project is hypothesis-driven and we have been participants for 250 years. 

 
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Richard H. Zander 
Missouri Botanical Garden, PO Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 USA 
Web sites: http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/ and http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/bfna/bfnamenu.htm
Modern Evolutionary Systematics Web site: http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/21EvSy.htm


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Subject: 	Re Funding biodiversity?
Date: 	Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:52:35 +0100
From: 	Sergio Vargas <s.vargas at lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
To: 	kennethkinman at webtv.net, taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu



  Hi,

just a brief question:

what's real biodiversity research?

and a comment,

>How does this kind of research get priority over real biodiversity research?

I've noticed that funding agencies tend to favor hypothesis-driven
research and to avoid funding long-term inventory work with no clear
outcome but "a list" of what's there and some new species... don't know
just my perception perhaps. But I might be missunderstanding what "real
biodiversity research" is anyways.

sergio



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