Like the expeditions launched by Tara Ocean, whose results were published on June 1st, those of National Geographic in connection with the oceanographer Enric Sala left last week, or the Ocean Census project launched at the end of April and led by the Nippon Foundation and the British Institute of Marine Sciences Nekton, many private initiatives contribute to describe underwater species. Nevertheless, underwater life remains largely unknown and its inventory is less and less financed in Europe. Some scientists such as Ferdinando Boero, jellyfish expert and researcher at the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station in Naples, even believe that there are no longer major ambitious taxonomy projects in the world and that money is instead directed towards mathematics, computer science and genomics to study genes found in the ocean, at the expense of taxonomy. branch of natural sciences that aims to describe and classify species.
"Taxonomist positions...
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