International agreements mandate the expansion of Earth's protected-area network as a
bulwark against the continued extinction of wild populations, species, and ecosystems. Yet …

Population genetic data underpin many studies of behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary
processes in wild populations and contribute to effective conservation management …

Rapid changes of the biosphere observed in recent years are caused by both small and
large scale drivers, like shifts in temperature, transformations in land-use, or changes in the …

Recent estimates suggest that the global insect fauna includes fewer than six million
species, but this projection is very uncertain because taxonomic work has been limited on …

Halting biodiversity decline is one of the most critical challenges for humanity, but monitoring
biodiversity is hampered by taxonomic impediments. One impediment is the large number of …

Three new genera are described: Michener (Proteropinae), Bioalfa (Rogadinae), and
Hermosomastax (Rogadinae). Keys are given for the New World genera of the following …

Abstract The Barcode of Life Data System (bold) is an informatics workbench aiding the
acquisition, storage, analysis and publication of DNA barcode records. By assembling …

The taxonomic challenge posed by cryptic species (two or more distinct species classified as
a single species) has been recognized for nearly 300 years, but the advent of relatively …

DNA barcoding–taxon identification using a standardized DNA region–has received much
attention recently, and is being further developed through an international initiative. We …

FISH‐BOL, the Fish Barcode of Life campaign, is an international research collaboration that
is assembling a standardized reference DNA sequence library for all fishes. Analysis is …