Systematics Agenda 2000 is an ambitious initiative emanating from biological systematists in the USA. It proposes an intensive international programme over a 25 year period;-(i) to discover, describe and inventory global species diversity, (ii) to synthesize the resulting data into a predictive classification, and (iii) to develop an appropriate information system to handle the resulting information.
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Claridge, M.F. Introducing systematics Agenda 2000. Biodivers Conserv 4, 451–454 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00056335
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