The importance of applying Standardised Integrative Taxonomy when describing marine benthic organisms and collecting ecological data
Cristina Gioia Di Camillo A C , Cinzia Gravili B , Doris De Vito B , Daniela Pica A , Stefano Piraino B , Stefania Puce A and Carlo Cerrano A
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A Dipartimento Scienze della Vita e dell’Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.
B Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, Università del Salento, via Prov. le Lecce-Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy.
C Corresponding author. Email: c.dicamillo@univpm.it
Invertebrate Systematics 32(4) 794-802 https://doi.org/10.1071/IS17067
Submitted: 19 July 2017 Accepted: 8 March 2018 Published: 14 August 2018
Abstract
The decline of morphologically based taxonomy is mainly linked to increasing species redundancy, which probably contributed to a worldwide disinterest in taxonomy, and to a reduction of funding for systematic biology and for expertise training. The present trend in the study of biodiversity is integrated taxonomy, which merges morphological and molecular approaches. At the same time, in many cases new molecular techniques have eclipsed the morphological approach. The application of Standardised Integrative Taxonomy, i.e. a rigorous, common method of description based on the integration between ecological and morphological characteristics, may increase the precision, accessibility, exploitability and longevity of the collected data, and favour the renaissance of taxonomy by new investments in biodiversity exploration.
Additional keywords: Darwin core, dataset, ecology, georeferencing, sessile benthos, standardised descriptions.
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