Open AccessTaking the oldest insect recording scheme into the 21st Century
Author(s) -
Foster Garth N.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
biological journal of the linnean society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.906
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1095-8312
pISSN - 0024-4066
DOI - 10.1111/bij.12531
Subject(s) - amateur , biology , fauna , scheme (mathematics) , relation (database) , genealogy , set (abstract data type) , ecology , archaeology , history , computer science , mathematics , data mining , mathematical analysis , programming language
The water beetle recording scheme for B ritain and I reland is over 100 years old. For at least half of that time, it has been under the control of P rofessor F rank B alfour‐ B rowne, who was motivated by a wish to understand the origin of the fauna. The current state of the scheme is discussed in relation to developments from the 1970s onwards, with recognition of the continuing values of an active scheme offered to professional scientists and amateur enthusiasts, as well as a hard copy atlas in the age of electronic data. The next phase of recording will be difficult, requiring a genetic analysis of water beetles that is beyond the reach of most recorders to resolve what B alfour‐ B rowne set out to explore in 1904. © 2015 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 2015, ●● , ●●–●●.