Quentin Wheeler's career can be traced back to a fascination with pond scum. Now president of SUNY's College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Wheeler was 8 when he first peered through a ...

The genus Begonia, recognised as one of the most diverse groups of flowering plants, has long fascinated botanists due to its intricate morphological diversity and widespread geographical distribution ...

The family Annonaceae, one of the largest among the early-diverging angiosperms, comprises a diverse array of genera that are chiefly distributed in tropical regions. Recent phylogenetic studies have ...

Taxonomies are an important tool in balancing the contradictory forces of information overload and the need for instant access to the right information According to the writer Jorge Luis Borges, a ...

There is an urgent need for overhauling current teaching and training methods and contents in taxonomy - the scientific branch concerned with classification - at all levels, according to experts. The ...