I'm conceiving a few paragraphs to discuss on contributions from taxonomists, demands from other topics and gaps between taxonomists and other researchers. Here, taxonomists are not limited to alpha level who focus mainly on species identification and classification.
Certainly, taxonomists have been spending much valuable time and rich expertise to contribute a lot to some important projects, especially those on biodiversity, ecology, evolutionary biology, invasion biology, plant protection, conservation biology, and emerging genome biology. Also, governments demands more for quarantine of pests. However, there is a trend that more and more teams appreciate taxonomists' contributions only in the acknowledgement part of papers.
Why?
How to fill in the gaps?
How to optimise the interactions between taxonomists and other researchers?
Your answers/comments are mostly welcome. If you are willing to act as the coauthor(s) of this potential manuscript to Zoological Systematics, please kindly email me at [email protected].
every thing in today's world is converging. Every domain of science is now interlinked, and we are dealing with interdisciplinary science. taxonomist can collaborate with bioinformatics and molecular biologist to find out evolutionary relationship of a species and also behavioral genetics. Taxonomist can unite with mathematician and can contribute to theoretical biology. people are working in these fields. A new field has emerged known as ''Quantum biology''- a joint work of biologist( zoologist, botanist, taxonomist) and physicists.
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