Inventory of Biodiversity Today New Methods and Discoveries

About this book

Our knowledge of living organisms is still very limited, with less than 20% of the world's species known to date. It is therefore essential to increase our efforts to inventory biodiversity. This is the goal of scientific research, but it is also a vital responsibility in the face of the sixth extinction. With so many species set to disappear before they can be analyzed, the compilation of this inventory now represents a major challenge.

Thanks to the collaborative work of numerous researchers from the Institut de systematique, evolution, biodiversite (ISYEB) and other institutions, Inventory of Biodiversity Today presents the latest methods of field data collection and analysis. Strategies have diversified and are providing new and ever-more-precise data on a growing number of specimens. All of these data are integrated to delimit and describe living species, and are accessible to as many people as possible, so we can all take action on a daily basis to better understand and preserve our planet.

Contents

Introduction  / Violaine Nicolas   xiii
Chapter 1. Scientific Exploration Campaigns to Inventory Existing Biodiversity and Hasten the Discovery of New Species / Line Le Gall   1
Chapter 2. Half a Century of Naturalist Exploration of Upper Bathyal Benthic Environments: Ruptures and Continuities / Sarah Samadi and Sophie Bary   11
Chapter 3. CEAMARC: An Integrated Campaign to Evaluate Biodiversity at All Scales in Adelie Land  / Marc Eleaume, Nadia Ameziane, Frederic Busson, Romain Causse, Agnes Dettai, Guillaume Lecointre and Catherine Ozouf-Costaz   27
Chapter 4. Objectif Plancton: A Citizen Science Program to Study Plankton Diversity  / Cyril Gallut, Celine Liret, Marine Le Moal, Philippe Pondaven, Cecile Banovski-Klein, Mathilde Cadier, Antoine Charpentier, Klervi Fustec, Julianne Le Guen, Molene Le Roy, Joelle Pichon, Martin Plus, Laura Schweibold, Marc Sourisseau and Nalani K. Schnell   41
Chapter 5. Environmental DNA for Observing Marine Mammals in the Marine Protected Areas of Iroise and the Antilles  / Jean-Luc Jung   59
Chapter 6. DNA Barcoding for Identifying Species and Monitoring French Biodiversity  / Rodolphe Rougerie, Lucas Sire and Antoine Leveque   73
Chapter 7. Exploring the Molecular Biodiversity of Specimens in Collections: The Case of Coccinellidae  / Karen Salazar, Romain Nattier and Guillaume Achaz   95
Chapter 8. New Tools and New Discoveries in Paleo-entomology: Looking to Future Challenges / Andre Nel, Patricia Nel, Jean-paul Kundura, Romain Garrouste, Valerie Ngo-Muller, Mathieu Boderau, Thomas Schubnel and Corentin Jouault   123
Chapter 9. X-ray Tomography of Crinoids: Morphological Diversity and Evolution Seen under a Different Light  / Pablo Martinez-Soares, Nadia Ameziane, Marta Bellato, Julien Bigot, Margot Mathieu, Michel Roux, Patricia Wills and Marc Eleaume   139
Chapter 10. Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of Integrative Taxonomy / Aurelien Miralles and Nicolas Puillandre   153
Chapter 11. Thiomargarita magnifica: A Giant from Marine Mangroves, Pushing the Limits of Bacteriology  / Olivier Gros, Silvina Gonzalez-Rizzo, Nathalie Elisabeth and Jean-Marie Volland   171
Chapter 12. New Species of Freshwater Fish in France: Reasons and Impacts for Management  / Gael Denys, Agnes Dettai, Henri Persat, Nicolas Poulet and Philippe Keith   183
Chapter 13. Effects of Sampling Bias in Estimating Phylodiversity in the Southern Ocean / Anna Kondratyeva   201
Chapter 14. Standardization, Accessibility of Research Data and Open Science / Visotheary Ung   217

List of Authors   237
Index   243

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Biography

Violaine Nicolas is Professor at the Museum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, France, and Director of the Institut de systematique, evolution, biodiversite, France.