Taxonomy & Systematics
UK Taxonomy & Systematics Review consultation
(Closing date: 15 May 2010)
As part of the UK Taxonomy & Systematics Review the Expert Working Group (EWG) is seeking input from taxonomists and users of taxonomy in the UK.
Inputs can be made in two ways:
- by submitting written comments on the consultation document below
- at an open event in London on 23 April 2010 (see the Taxonomy Review website
for details).
All comments are welcome but the consultation document lists a variety of questions and issues that have come up in initial discussions amongst the EWG and the Project Team. We do this both to encourage responses to these topics and so that relevant areas to the development of a national strategy that we might have overlooked can be identified. We stress that we expect most contributors to comment on only a limited number of issues.
The EWG will make use of material submitted to the House of Lords Inquiry, and also information given to the Linnean Society as part of their current exploration of critical gaps and needs in UK taxonomy. There is thus no need to duplicate evidence provided to these bodies. When providing responses please quote the paragraph numbers in the consultation document.
Comments that include referenced, evidence-based statements will be particularly helpful. We do not intend to publish submissions, but would like the opportunity to quote from them; please indicate if you would not like us to do this.
Consultation document - PDF document (197KB) Consultation document - Word document (210KB)Consultation document
Posted 12 February 2010
The deadline for consultation responses is 15 May 2010.
Please email submissions to responses@uktaxonomy.co.uk.
The Taxonomy & Systematics Expert Working Group thank in advance everyone who contributes to this process.
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