Edited by
Violaine Nicolas, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle in Paris, France.
ISBN : 9781786309587
Publication Date : September 2024
Hardcover 264 pp
165.00 USD
Co-publisher
Our knowledge of living organisms is still very limited, with less than 20% of the world’s species known to date. It is therefore essential to increase our efforts to inventory biodiversity. This is the goal of scientific research, but it is also a vital responsibility in the face of the sixth extinction. With so many species set to disappear before they can be analyzed, the compilation of this inventory now represents a major challenge.
Thanks to the collaborative work of numerous researchers from the Institut de systématique, évolution, biodiversité (ISYEB) and other institutions, Inventory of Biodiversity Today presents the latest methods of field data collection and analysis. Strategies have diversified and are providing new and ever-more-precise data on a growing number of specimens. All of these data are integrated to delimit and describe living species, and are accessible to as many people as possible, so we can all take action on a daily basis to better understand and preserve our planet.
1. Scientific Exploration Campaigns to Inventory Existing Biodiversity and Hasten the Discovery of New Species, Line Le Gall.
2. Half a Century of Naturalist Exploration of Upper Bathyal Benthic Environments: Ruptures and Continuities, Sarah Samadi and Sophie Bary.
3. CEAMARC: An Integrated Campaign to Evaluate Biodiversity at All Scales in Adélie Land, Omid Boyer, Nadia Saeidi, Farshad Kaveh, Negin Berjis and Shila Sharifzadeh.
4. Objectif Plancton: A Citizen Science Program to Study Plankton Diversity, Cyril Gallut, Céline Liret, Marine Le Moal, Philippe Pondaven, Cécile Banovski-Klein, Mathilde Cadier, Antoine Charpentier, Klervi Fustec, Julianne Le Guen, Molène Le Roy, Joëlle Pichon, Martin Plus, Laura Schweibold, Marc Sourisseau and Nalani K. Schnell.
5. Environmental DNA for Observing Marine Mammals in the Marine Protected Areas of Iroise and the Antilles, Jean-Luc Jung.
6. DNA Barcoding for Identifying Species and Monitoring French Biodiversity, Rodolphe Rougerie, Lucas Sire and Antoine Lévéque.
7. Exploring the Molecular Biodiversity of Specimens in Collections: The Case of Coccinellidae, Karen Salazar, Romain Nattier and Guillaume Achaz.
8. New Tools and New Discoveries in Paleo-entomology: Looking to Future Challenges, André Nel, Patricia Nel, Jean-Paul Kundura, Romain Garrouste, Valérie Ngô-Muller, Mathieu Bodereau, Thomas Schubnel and Corentin Jouault.
9. X-ray Tomography of Crinoids: Morphological Diversity and Evolution Seen under a Different Light, Pablo Martinez-Soares, Nadia Améziane, Marta Bellato, Julien Bigot, Margot Mathieu, Michel Roux, Patricia Wills and Marc Eléaume.
10. Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of Integrative Taxonomy, Aurélien Miralles and Nicolas Puillandre.
11. Thiomargarita magnifica: A Giant from Marine Mangroves, Pushing the Limits of Bacteriology, Olivier Gros, Silvina Gonzalez-Rizzo, Nathalie Elisabeth and Jean-Marie Volland.
12. New Species of Freshwater Fish in France: Reasons and Impacts for Management, Gaël Denys, Agnès Dettaï, Henri Persat, Nicolas Poulet and Philippe Keith.
13. Effects of Sampling Bias in Estimating Phylodiversity in the Southern Ocean, Anna Kondratyeva.
14. Standardization, Accessibility of Research Data and Open Science, Visotheary Ung.
Violaine Nicolas is Professor at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle in Paris, France, and Director of the Institut de systématique, évolution, biodiversité, France.
