Biodiversity: The Interface Between Systematics and Conservation Workshop in Bloomington, IN (June 23-27, 2000)

Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

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Abstract

This award is to partially fund the symposium "Biodiversity: the interface between systematics and conservation" held 23-27 June, 2000, in Bloomington, Indiana, at the joint meetings of the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB), Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), as well as the Association for Tropical Biology (ATB). this symposium is co-sponsored by the SSB and ATB. It will bring together researchers from a wide variety of fields related to biodiversity and conservation to discuss the relevance of systematics to their research and to evaluate various techniques that make use of systematic and taxonomic data. The topic is timely because of the increasing recognition of the importance of systematic data in conservation biology, and the wealth of new methods available for using systematic data in this context.