Keep all the pieces: Systematics 2000 and world conservation
✍ Scribed by Jeffrey A. McNeely
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 735 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0960-3115
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Conserving biological diversity requires a major effort in conducting survey and inventories, establishing priorities, selecting protected areas, managing resources and monitoring the effects of management. Systematics has an important contribution to make to each of these five major activities. Further, the new Convention on Biological Diversity requires systematics information to support action under virtually all of its substantive conservation and sustainable use articles. It seems apparent that large reference collections contribute directly to development, and development assistance agencies should recognize that investing in maintaining these collections is a legitimate form of development assistance.