[Taxacom] Taxonomy - crisis, what crisis?

[Kim van der Linde]

On 10/5/2011 4:05 PM, Neal Evenhuis wrote:
> I think their analysis missed a very important point.
>
> They say that given the decline in numbers of species described per
> taxonomist since 1950 there must be a declining pool of species. This
> does not take into account that some taxonomists are simply not
> publishing new taxa anymore

I suspect that we see a reduction in species descriptions in part by the 
ever increasing size of those descriptions. The descriptions become more 
and more detailed so that we can distinguish more and more species, but 
that takes more and more time to do.

Just my 2 cents.

Kim