• Principles for creating a single authoritative list of the world’s species 

      Garnett, Stephen T.; Christidis, Les; Conix, Stijn; Costello, Mark; Zachos, Frank E.; Banki, Olaf S.; Bao, Yiming; Barik, Saroj K.; Buckeridge, John Stewart; Hobern, Donald; Lien, Aaron; Montgomery, Narelle; Nikolaeva, Svetlana; Pyle, Richard L.; Thomson, Scott A.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Whalen, Anthony; Zhang, Zhi-Qiang; Thiele, Kevin R. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Lists of species underpin many fields of human endeavour, but there are currently no universally accepted principles for deciding which biological species should be accepted when there are alternative taxonomic treatments ...
    • Towards a global list of accepted species I. Why taxonomists sometimes disagree, and why this matters. 

      Thiele, Kevin R.; Conix, Stijn; Pyle, Richard L.; Barik, Saroj K.; Christidis, Les; Costello, Mark John; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Kirk, Paul; Lien, Aaron; Thomson, Scott A.; Zachos, Frank E.; Zhang, Zhi-Qiang; Garnett, Stephen T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Taxonomy—the delimitation, naming, classification and documentation of species and other taxa—is an often-misunderstood discipline. Complex and at times contested, taxonomy occupies a sometimes discomforting intermediate ...
    • Towards a global list of accepted species II. Consequences of inadequate taxonomic list governance 

      Thomson, Scott A.; Thiele, Kevin; Conix, Stijn; Christidis, Les; Costello, Mark John; Hobern, Donald; Nikolaeva, Svetlana; Pyle, Richard L.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Weaver, Haylee; Zachos, Frank E.; Zhang, Zhi-Qiang; Garnett, Stephen T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Species lists are widely used in legislation and regulation to manage and conserve biodiversity. In this paper, we explore the issues caused by the lack of an adequately governed and universally accepted list of the world’s ...
    • Towards a global list of accepted species III. Independence and stakeholder inclusion. 

      Conix, Stijn; Garnett, Stephen T.; Thiele, Kevin R.; Christidis, Les; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Bánki, Olaf S.; Barik, Saroj K.; Buckeridge, John S.; Costello, Mark John; Hobern, Donald; Kirk, Paul M.; Lien, Aaron; Nikolaeva, Svetlana; Pyle, Richard L.; Thomson, Scott A.; Zhang, Zhi-Qiang; Zachos, Frank E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A global consensus list of the world’s species must be based on the best available taxonomic research, and its contents should not be biased towards certain political or social aims. At the same time, users of any global ...
    • Towards a global list of accepted species IV : Overcoming fragmentation in the governance of taxonomic lists. 

      Lien, Aaron M.; Conix, Stijn; Zachos, Frank E.; Christidis, Les; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Bánki, Olaf S.; Barik, Saroj K.; Buckeridge, John S.; Costello, Mark John; Hobern, Donald; Montgomery, Narelle; Nikolaeva, Svetlana; Pyle, Richard L.; Thomson, Scott A.; Zhang, Zhi-Qiang; Garnett, Stephen T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Governance is the act of governing or organizing, that is a system of rules, norms, or shared strategies to guide or regulate the actions of the governed. Since the initial development of Linnaean taxonomy, a diversity of ...
    • Towards a global list of accepted species V : the devil is in the detail. 

      Pyle, Richard L.; Barik, Saroj K.; Christidis, Les; Conix, Stijn; Costello, Mark John; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Garnett, Stephen T.; Hobern, Donald; Kirk, Paul M.; Lien, Aaron M.; Orrell, Thomas M.; Remsen, David; Thomson, Scott A.; Wambiji, Nina; Zachos, Frank E.; Zhang, Zhi-Qiang; Thiele, Kevin R. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A consensus among biologists has been growing in recent years for the development of a global list of accepted species (and other taxa). To date, much discussion has focused on visions for how such a list would benefit ...