Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Tree species and their names are a product of a two-part plant naming ...

Trees inferred from alternative-marker sets showed a higher degree of discordance with the GTDB taxonomy than those inferred by using alternative maximum-likelihood-inference software. To further ...

change in taxonomy — or go extinct. Smithsonian details other recent research that is trying to provide a better picture of the state of the world's trees: "In 2015, a study found that there are ...

Backfilling is used to fill taxonomic gaps in the unique taxon names left on the phylogenetic tree from the F-measure process. For this procedure, the input taxonomy is transformed into a tree and ...

Taxonomy and systematics provide the foundation for studying ... identification and monitoring in virtually all environmental sciences, and evolutionary ‘tree thinking’ is now applied widely in most ...