caa a22 4500 605526400 CHVBK 20210128100803.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10531-014-0785-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10531-014-0785-4 Strategic taxonomy in a biodiverse landscape: a novel approach to maximizing conservation outcomes for rare and poorly known flora [Elektronische Daten] [Juliet Wege, Kevin Thiele, Kelly Shepherd, Ryonen Butcher, Terry Macfarlane, David Coates] In the face of escalating threats to the world's biodiversity, there is a pressing need for accelerated taxonomic effort to better inform conservation planning and decision making, particularly in areas of exceptional species richness. We present a novel perspective on setting taxonomic research priorities and expediting the description of new taxa based on our experience in the biodiversity-rich state of Western Australia, which has a current known taxonomic backlog of 1,470 undescribed vascular plant taxa, a significant proportion of which are regarded as being of conservation concern. Biodiversity surveys associated with a mineral resources boom have led to the discovery of many new taxa, and have increased demand for reliable taxonomic information and better knowledge of rare and threatened taxa. In direct response to this, we developed a strategic taxonomy initiative to expedite the taxonomic description of species of conservation concern, particularly those that could be susceptible to mining activities. Over the six years of the initiative, 154 new taxa from 23 families and 45 genera were formally described, 86% of which occur in areas subject to resource development or are otherwise of conservation concern. In addition, conservation assessments conducted on both newly described and newly discovered taxa resulted in the addition of 155 taxa to the Threatened and Priority Flora list for Western Australia. Whilst this initiative resulted in significant biodiversity conservation outcomes, promoted collaborations and built taxonomic capacity, there were inherent drawbacks to this targeted approach. An approach that combines strategic, high-throughput taxonomy with longer-term revisionary research is necessary to effectively reduce the taxonomic backlog in species-rich regions with incomplete taxonomic inventories. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Taxonomy nationallicence Threatened species nationallicence Conservation priorities nationallicence Taxonomic capacity nationallicence Biodiversity nationallicence Wege Juliet Western Australian Herbarium, Science and Conservation Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, 6983, Perth, WA, Australia aut Thiele Kevin Western Australian Herbarium, Science and Conservation Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, 6983, Perth, WA, Australia aut Shepherd Kelly Western Australian Herbarium, Science and Conservation Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, 6983, Perth, WA, Australia aut Butcher Ryonen Western Australian Herbarium, Science and Conservation Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, 6983, Perth, WA, Australia aut Macfarlane Terry Western Australian Herbarium, Science and Conservation Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, 6983, Perth, WA, Australia aut Coates David Western Australian Herbarium, Science and Conservation Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, 6983, Perth, WA, Australia aut Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands 24/1(2015-01-01), 17-32 0960-3115 24:1<17 2015 24 10531 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-014-0785-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-014-0785-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wege Juliet Western Australian Herbarium, Science and Conservation Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, 6983, Perth, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Thiele Kevin Western Australian Herbarium, Science and Conservation Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, 6983, Perth, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shepherd Kelly Western Australian Herbarium, Science and Conservation Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, 6983, Perth, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Butcher Ryonen Western Australian Herbarium, Science and Conservation Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, 6983, Perth, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Macfarlane Terry Western Australian Herbarium, Science and Conservation Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, 6983, Perth, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Coates David Western Australian Herbarium, Science and Conservation Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, 6983, Perth, WA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands 24/1(2015-01-01), 17-32 0960-3115 24:1<17 2015 24 10531