[Taxacom] Nature needs names: 60 new dragonflies from Africa
John Grehan
calabar.john at gmail.com
Fri Dec 11 17:05:10 CST 2015
How sparingly?
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
wrote:
> But it should be used sparingly
> --------------------------------------------
> On Sat, 12/12/15, Torbjørn Ekrem <torbjorn.ekrem at ntnu.no> wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Nature needs names: 60 new dragonflies from Africa
> To: "John Grehan" <calabar.john at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Stephen Thorpe" <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>, "
> taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>, "
> info at pensoft.net" <info at pensoft.net>
> Received: Saturday, 12 December, 2015, 11:59 AM
>
> Or perhaps the authors
> had a proper plan with their public outreach! I applaud any
> effort, small or large, that shows the public what taxonomy
> is about and why it is important for our society.
>
> Torbjørn
>
> > Den 11. des. 2015 kl. 23.42 skrev John
> Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Every now and then,
> for one reason or another, a particular taxonomic
> > contribution will gain greater general
> attention, perhaps due to the style,
> >
> approach, presentation, techniques etc, used by the authors,
> sometimes
> > perhaps for other reasons.
> That's just the way it is. Life never promised a
> > rose garden.
> >
> > John Grehan
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Stephen
> Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Another example, just published, of a
> less hyped but bigger contribution,
> >>
> is
> >>
> >>
> Liebherr, J.K. 2015: The Mecyclothorax beetles (Coleoptera,
> Carabidae,
> >> Moriomorphini) of
> Haleakala-, Maui: Keystone of a hyperdiverse Hawaiian
> >> radiation. ZooKeys, 544: 1-407. doi:
> 10.3897/zookeys.544.6074
> >>
> >> In this case, the new names are
> ZooBank registered, but, unfortunately, it
> >> looks like there was a glitch:
> >>
> >> http://zoobank.org/References/C5978BD0-145B-40F8-ACDE-B27371B7B9A4
> >>
> >> Stephen
> >>
> >>
> --------------------------------------------
> >> On Sat, 12/12/15, Roderic Page <Roderic.Page at glasgow.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Nature needs names: 60 new
> dragonflies from Africa
> >> To:
> "taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu"
> <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> >> Cc: "Ellinor Michel" <e.michel at nhm.ac.uk>
> >> Received: Saturday, 12 December, 2015,
> 4:38 AM
> >>
> >>
> Hi Ellinor,
> >>
> >> I guess I’d argue that the
> >> fact we feel the need to celebrate
> this and the attention it
> >> brings to
> taxonomy is in part a consequence of the limited
> >> reusability of taxonomic publications
> in the first place. We
> >> should be
> aiming for reuse by everyone interested in
> >> biodiversity data (e.g., the modellers
> using GBIF data, the
> >> phylogenetists
> grabbing sequences from GenBank to build
> >> trees, and so on). Maximising reuse
> helps make the case for
> >> the
> importance of taxonomy, I would argue it’s a better
> >> argument than the occasional
> spectacular monograph of some
> >>
> beautiful insects.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Rod
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11 Dec
> >> 2015, at 11:59, Ellinor Michel <e.michel at nhm.ac.uk<mailto:
> >> e.michel at nhm.ac.uk>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Rod
> >>
> >> Your comments are valid, but
> >> surely directed to the authors! I
> posted this on their
> >> behalf, as I
> have more ready access to Taxacom posting at
> >> the moment. You might want to broaden
> the target your
> >> comments, as the
> story has been picked up by Science, and a
> >> number of other outlets. Overall,
> I'd say its terrific
> >> that some
> taxonomic groundwork is being celebrated.
> >>
> >>
> http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/12/explosion-new-dragonfly-species-results-animals-named-after-gorillas-pink-floyd
> >>
> >> I'm just
> guessing, but
> >> there are likely to
> be constraints on publishing costs from
> >> the authors' perspective so that
> OA was not an option.
> >> Thus the
> focus of this kind of very constructive criticism
> >> on your part should be the
> administrations of the
> >>
> organisations that the authors work for, the science
> funding
> >> agencies, and the
> publishers.
> >>
> >> In the meantime, this nice short
> publicity also
> >> does a nice job for
> publicising the topic, with beautiful
> >> photos
> >>
> >>
> http://africageographic.com/blog/60-new-species-dragonflies-discovered-africa/
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Ellinor
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: Roderic Page [Roderic.Page at glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:
> >> Roderic.Page at glasgow.ac.uk>]
> >> Sent: 11 December 2015 11:42
> >> To: Ellinor Michel
> >> Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu<mailto:taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> >> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Nature needs
> names: 60
> >> new dragonflies from
> Africa
> >>
> >> Hi
> Ellinor,
> >>
> >>
> While I applaud the effort, and the dragonflies
> >> are wonderful, it’s hard to applaud
> the way this paper has
> >> been
> published:
> >>
> >> Does it in
> >> an
> open access journal? No
> >> Does the
> article
> >> have a DOI so that it can
> be easily cited? No
> >> Are the names
> registered with ZooBank? No
> >> Are the
> DNA sequences available in GenBank?
> >>
> No
> >> Is the data available for
> downloading?
> >> No*
> >> Has the distributional data been
> >> deposited in GBIF? No
> >>
> >> I
> >> don’t wish to take away from what
> has clearly been a lot
> >> of work, but
> surely we need to think about the best way to
> >> make all this hard work as widely
> accessible as possible? A
> >> PDF with
> wonderful pictures of dragonflies and low
> >> resolution maps does not represent the
> best that modern
> >> taxonomic
> publishing can offer.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> Rod
> >>
> >> * The articles says "A
> >> list of collection codes and
> corresponding BOLD numbers can
> >> be
> down- loaded from the journal website (http://www.odonatologica.com)”
> >> This is
> >> not a
> link to the data, which I can’t see anywhere on the
> >> web site.
> >>
> >>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> >> Roderic Page
> >>
> Professor of
> >> Taxonomy
> >> Institute of Biodiversity, Animal
> >> Health and Comparative Medicine
> >> College of
> >>
> Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences
> >> Graham
> >> Kerr
> Building
> >> University of Glasgow
> >> Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
> >>
> >> Email: Roderic.Page at glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:Roderic.Page at glasgow.ac.uk
> >>> <mailto:Roderic.Page at glasgow.ac.uk>
> >> Tel: +44 141 330 4778
> >> Skype: rdmpage
> >> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rdmpage
> >> LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/rdmpage
> >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/rdmpage
> >> Blog: http://iphylo.blogspot.com<http://iphylo.blogspot.com/>
> >> ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7101-9767
> >> Citations:
> http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=4Z5WABAAAAAJ
> >> ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roderic_Page
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11 Dec
> >>
> 2015, at 11:14, Ellinor Michel <e.michel at nhm.ac.uk<mailto:
> >> e.michel at nhm.ac.uk><mailto:e.michel at nhm.ac.uk>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> [posted on behalf of
> >> the primary author, Klaas-Douwe
> 'KD' B. Dijkstra]
> >>
> >> 'Dear colleagues,
> >>
> >> All
> awareness, conservation
> >> and
> research of nature starts with the question: which
> >> species is that? Names introduce
> species to humanity. It’s
> >> a
> biologist’s greatest importance today, but just now
> >> nature is under historic pressure,
> such research is getting
> >> less
> support.
> >>
> >>
> We aim to
> >> expose this paradox by
> naming 60 new dragonflies from
> >>
> Africa, increasing the number known by almost 10% at
> once.
> >> All are colourful and
> conspicuous, representing some of the
> >> most sensitive and beautiful of all
> biodiversity:
> >> freshwater, Earth’s
> most dense and threatened species
> >>
> richness — Africa, the continent that will change most
> in
> >> the 21st century — and
> dragonflies, the insects that may
> >>
> be among the best gauges of global change.
> >>
> >> We hope this
> message will be
> >> heard widely, so
> please share this as you wish, e.g. on
> >> blogs and to the local media,
> particularly in Africa
> >> itself.
> >>
> >> Press
> release: https://goo.gl/KGMsyC
> >> Info and images: https://goo.gl/vRoJSL
> >> Full publication:
> >>
> www.osmylus.com/index.php/downloads<
> >> http://www.osmylus.com/index.php/downloads><
> >> http://www.osmylus.com/index.php/downloads><
> >> http://www.osmylus.com/index.php/downloads>
> >> Watch discovery of new species in DR
> Congo:
> >> youtu.be/Arr2k7dwzSU<http://youtu.be/Arr2k7dwzSU><
> >> http://youtu.be/Arr2k7dwzSU><http://youtu.be/Arr2k7dwzSU>
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> also on behalf of
> >> my co-authors
> Jens and Nico, who have both made their
> >> exceptional contributions in their
> free time!
> >>
> >> Klaas-Douwe 'KD' B.
> >> Dijkstra
> >>
> Naturalis Biodiversity Center,
> >>
> Leiden, The Netherlands
> >>
> Conservation Ecology
> >> and
> Entomology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
> >> science.naturalis.nl/dijkstra<http://science.naturalis.nl/dijkstra><
> >> http://science.naturalis.nl/dijkstra><
> http://science.naturalis.nl/dijkstra
> >>
> >> '
> >>
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