| Title |
Insights from Zootaxa on potential trends in zoological taxonomic activity
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Zoology, March 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1742-9994-8-5 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Elise Tancoigne, Cyprien Bole, Anne Sigogneau, Alain Dubois |
| Abstract |
An opinion currently shared by taxonomists and non taxonomists alike is that the work of inventorying biodiversity is unbalanced: firstly, in favour of countries in which taxonomy has been studied for a long time, and, secondly, in favour of vertebrates. In the current context of threats of species extinction, access for taxonomists to biological material and information becomes crucial if the scientific community really aims at a better knowledge of biological diversity before it is severely and irreversibly impoverished. We performed an analysis of 748 papers published in Zootaxa in 2006 and 2007, as well as 434 questionnaires sent to their authors to test these opinions. A generalization of these results to zoological taxonomy as a whole is discussed. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 16 | 10% |
| France | 4 | 3% |
| India | 2 | 1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 2 | 1% |
| Unknown | 126 | 81% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 42 | 27% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 30 | 19% |
| Professor | 16 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 10% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 13 | 8% |
| Other | 33 | 21% |
| Unknown | 6 | 4% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 126 | 81% |
| Environmental Science | 10 | 6% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3 | 2% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 1% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 5 | 3% |
| Unknown | 8 | 5% |
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