Further reading
On taxonomic aggregators (global species lists) and the aggregation process
Garnett, S. T., Christidis, L., Conix, S., Costello, M. J., Zachos, F. E., Bánki, O. S., Bao, Y., Barik, S. K., Buckeridge, J. S., Hobern, D. & Lien, A. (2020). Principles for creating a single authoritative list of the world’s species. PLoS Biology, 18(7), e3000736. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000736
Hobern, D., Barik, S. K., Christidis, L., Garnett, S. T. Kirk, P., Orrell, T. M., Pape, T., Pyle, R. L., Thiele, K. R., Zachos, F. E., & Bánki, O. (2021). Towards a global list of accepted species VI. The Catalogue of Life checklist. Org Divers Evol. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-021-00516-w
Borsch, T., Berendsohn, W., Dalcin, E., Delmas, M., Demissew, S., Elliott, A., Fritsch, P., Fuchs, A., Geltman, D., Güner, A., Haevermans, T., Knapp, S., le Roux, M. M., Loizeau, P.-A., Miller, C., Miller, J., Miller, J. T., Palese, R., Paton, A., & Zamora, N. (2020). World Flora Online: placing taxonomists at the heart of a definitive and comprehensive global resource on the world’s plants. Taxon, 69, 1311–1341. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12373
On name and taxon identifiers
Page R. D. M. 2023: Ten years and a million links: building a global taxonomic library connecting persistent identifiers for names, publications and people doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.29.542697
On the stability of taxonomies (names and taxonomic concepts)
Thiele, K., Conix, S., Pyle, R. L., Barik, S. K., Christidis, L., Costello, M. J., van Dijk, P. P., Kirk, P., Lien, A., Thomson, S. A., Zachos, F. E., Zhang, Z.-Q., Garnett, S. T. (2021). Towards a global list of accepted species I. Why taxonomists sometimes disagree, and why this matters. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-021-00495-y
Pyle, R. L., Barik, S. K., Christidis, L., Conix, S., Costello, M. J., van Dijk, P. P., Garnett, S. T., Hobern, D., Kirk, P. M., Lien, A. M., Orrell, T. M., Remsen, D., Thomson, S. A., Wambiji, N., Zachos, F. E., Zhang, Z-Q., Thiele, K. R. (2021). Towards a global list of accepted species V. The devil is in the details. Organisms Diversity & Evolution.
