Proceedings of a May 1995 conference which set out to identify the contribution of Europe's special resources in systematic biology to the understanding of the Earth's biodiversity. This short volume is a key reference and highlights the considerable challenges which need to be addressed immediately.
Contents: Resources for microbial biosystematics in Europe; European plant-systematics and the European Flora; charting tropical plant diversity: Europe's contribution and potential; training systematists for the 21st century.