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Principles for creating a single authoritative list of the world's species

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
  • 2. Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, Australia
  • 3. Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
  • 4. School of Environment, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand & Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University, BodØ, Norway
  • 5. Natural History Museum Vienna, Vienna, Austria & Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria & Department of Genetics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
  • 6. Species 2000, Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands
  • 7. National Genomics Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics (China National Center for Bioinformation), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
  • 8. CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow, India
  • 9. Earth & Oceanic Systems Group, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia & Museums Victoria, Carlton, Australia
  • 10. Species 2000, Canberra, Australia
  • 11. School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Arizona, United States of America & Arizona Institutes for Resilience, University of Arizona, Arizona, United States of America
  • 12. Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Canberra, Australia & Sessional Committee, Scientific Council, Convention on Migratory Species, Bonn, Germany
  • 13. Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom & Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia
  • 14. B. P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i, United States of America
  • 15. Chelonian Research Institute, Oviedo, Florida, United States of America
  • 16. Global Wildlife Conservation, Austin, Texas, United States of America
  • 17. Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Canberra, Australia
  • 18. Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
  • 19. Taxonomy Australia, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, Australia

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Garnett, Stephen T., Christidis, Les, Conix, Stijn, Costello, Mark J., Zachos, Frank E., Bánki, Olaf S., Bao, Yiming, Barik, Saroj K., Buckeridge, John S., Hobern, Donald, Lien, Aaron, Montgomery, Narelle, Nikolaeva, Svetlana, Pyle, Richard L., Thomson, Scott A., van Dijk, Peter Paul, Whalen, Anthony, Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, Thiele, Kevin R. (2020): Principles for creating a single authoritative list of the world's species. PLOS Biology 18 (7): 1-10, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000736, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000736

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