Avibase - a database system for managing and organizing taxonomic concepts.
Avibase - a database system for managing and organizing taxonomic concepts.
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DOI：
10.3897/zookeys.420.7089
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发表时间：
2014
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影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Guralnick R
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文献类型：
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作者：
Lepage D;Vaidya G;Guralnick R
生物实体的科学名称提供了一个不完美的解决方案的概念，他们打算代表。它们通常是应用于从整个种群到代表这些种群的个体标本的实体的标签，即使这些名称仅明确识别它们最初附着的模式标本。因此，随着生物环境的重新定义，名字在现实生活中的指称也在不断变化，从而改变了拥有这些名字的个体的集合。这一问题因名称的其他特点而变得更加复杂，这些特点使它们成为生物概念的模糊标识符，包括校勘、同音异义和同义。有人提出分类概念，作为解决与科学名称有关的问题的一种方式，但这些概念尚未得到广泛承认或执行。已经作出了一些努力，通过编目和组织分类概念来建立解决这些问题的系统，但大多数仍处于概念或概念验证阶段。我们提出的在线数据库Avibase作为一种可能的方法来组织分类概念。Avibase在过去125年中已成功用于描述和组织每一个主要鸟类分类清单中的844，000个种级和705，000个亚种级分类概念。使用分类学概念代替科学名称，再加上高效的解析服务，是朝着解决目前科学名称传播和使用做法中的一些主要缺陷迈出的重要一步。
Scientific names of biological entities offer an imperfect resolution of the concepts that they are intended to represent. Often they are labels applied to entities ranging from entire populations to individual specimens representing those populations, even though such names only unambiguously identify the type specimen to which they were originally attached. Thus the real-life referents of names are constantly changing as biological circumscriptions are redefined and thereby alter the sets of individuals bearing those names. This problem is compounded by other characteristics of names that make them ambiguous identifiers of biological concepts, including emendations, homonymy and synonymy. Taxonomic concepts have been proposed as a way to address issues related to scientific names, but they have yet to receive broad recognition or implementation. Some efforts have been made towards building systems that address these issues by cataloguing and organizing taxonomic concepts, but most are still in conceptual or proof-of-concept stage. We present the on-line database Avibase as one possible approach to organizing taxonomic concepts. Avibase has been successfully used to describe and organize 844,000 species-level and 705,000 subspecies-level taxonomic concepts across every major bird taxonomic checklist of the last 125 years. The use of taxonomic concepts in place of scientific names, coupled with efficient resolution services, is a major step toward addressing some of the main deficiencies in the current practices of scientific name dissemination and use.
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