Diskussion:Parataxon

Daniel Hunt Janzen

Ist nicht Daniel Hunt Janzen der "Erfinder" der Parataxonomie? In einem GEO-Artikel zum Regenwald (6/92, S.65-66) steht es so. --217.70.135.55 22:15, 1. Jan. 2016 (CET)

Er ist (soweit ich weiß), gemeinsam mit Winifred Hallwachs "Erfinder" im ersten der im Artikel genannten Sinnzusammenhänge. Publizierter Artikel: Janzen, D.H. (1991) How to save tropical biodiversity. American Entomologist, 37: 159–171. doi:10.1093/ae/37.3.159. Im Rahmen des National Biodiversity Institute of Costa Rica; in einem frühen Report so umschrieben: "A core activity in this short period of preparation has been the invention and fine-tuning of a staff of inventory paraprofessionals termed “parataxonomists”. The parataxonomists are the primary field agents of the national inventory, currently working out of about 30 biodiversity offices scattered through the nation’s eight Conservation Areas. The parataxonomists are the primary field collection component of a complex INBio processing system that begins with the field-caught specimen and continues through curators, the collections, the international taxonomic network, and eventual products. These products are field guides, identifications, new species descriptions, contributions to monographic revisions, cladistic analyses, species data bases integrated with GIS and other data bases, and the service of guiding users to collateral biodiversity information through the medium of a species’ Latin name). The parataxonomists are rural in background, adults engaged in a lifetime (new) career of biodiversity management, and trained specifically for this vocation as an add-on to whatever school education they may have had."--Meloe (Diskussion) 22:47, 1. Jan. 2016 (CET)