Taxonomy

Taxonomy vs systematics

taxonomy is "what is that" - getting the name right
- Important for conservation - if you lump a species it may lose protection (Applied Ecology)

"Taxonomic anarchy" - Garnett and Christidis wrote that taxonomy is not sufficiently regulated
Thompson argued back 2018
Different groups recognize different numbers of taxa
International Botanical Congress each five years announces plant species should be named
Animals are less regulated - the same genus and species names are allowed
Cyanobacteria - formerly classified as plants, nomenclature was transferred to bacterial code - the old ones still use the plant rules but the new ones use bacteria rules (total chaos!)
- That's why nobody has ever found the ancestor of plants and cyanobacteria?

More like a Venn diagram with dots for distinct species and how they overlap in a 3D space

Taxonomy 1 is morphometric
Integrated taxonomy meets AI
Based on genetic barcode, niches, morphology - into machine learning model
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534723002963
With new genes, integrative taxonomic approach gives a lot of new information, but new theories are needed. One gene can evolve in a different way - gene trees may not interact, but these don't match to the species tree
Given all of this data
- DNA
- morphology
- Biogeography/ecology
- Ploidy/reproduction
- Physiology
- Behaviour
This will be embdedded into a matrix model and assigned a species, which will be confirmed by a taxonomist. This software is under development
DiSSCo (Distributed system of scientific collections) - european initiative to store all mseum collections and standardized
- By the 2030s