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Observational natural history and morphological taxonomy are indispensable for future challenges in biodiversity and conservation

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Observational natural history and morphological taxonomy are indispensable for future challenges in biodiversity and conservation. / Staab, Michael; Ohl, Michael; Zhu, Chao Dong et al.
In: Communicative and Integrative Biology, Vol. 8, No. 1, e992745, 2015.

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Staab, M, Ohl, M, Zhu, CD & Klein, AM 2015, 'Observational natural history and morphological taxonomy are indispensable for future challenges in biodiversity and conservation', Communicative and Integrative Biology, vol. 8, no. 1, e992745. https://doi.org/10.4161/19420889.2014.992745

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Staab, M., Ohl, M., Zhu, C. D., & Klein, A. M. (2015). Observational natural history and morphological taxonomy are indispensable for future challenges in biodiversity and conservation. Communicative and Integrative Biology, 8(1), Article e992745. https://doi.org/10.4161/19420889.2014.992745

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Staab M, Ohl M, Zhu CD, Klein AM. Observational natural history and morphological taxonomy are indispensable for future challenges in biodiversity and conservation. Communicative and Integrative Biology. 2015;8(1):e992745. doi: 10.4161/19420889.2014.992745

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abstract = "Global biodiversity is rapidly declining, leading inevitably to a loss of ecosystem functionality when species and their associated life-history traits vanish. Unfortunately, even in the 21st century, a large proportion of Earth's species are yet unknown and also for most described species science lacks a deeper understanding of the functional role of species and thus of ecosystems. In this Addendum we use the recent discovery of a new spider wasp with a unique natural history as an example to emphasize the importance to conduct basic observational natural history and traditional taxonomic research. We aim to encourage such 'old-fashioned' research and biologists from various research fields to report the many fascinating phenomena holding valuable natural history information they may encounter. Such detailed knowledge on species, their life-history traits, and their trophic interactions will be crucial to reliably address the challenges global change brings to the persistence of ecosystems.",
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