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James W. Byng
Researcher at Naturalis
Publications - 9
Citations - 1394
James W. Byng is an academic researcher from Naturalis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Syzygium & Delphinium. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 9 publications receiving 941 citations.
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The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase
TL;DR: Phytotaxa is currently contributing more than a quarter of the ca 2000 species that are described every year, showing that it has become a major contributor to the dissemination of new species discovery, but the rate of discovery is slowing down.
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Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation
Scott Thomson,Richard L. Pyle,Shane T. Ahyong,Shane T. Ahyong,Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga,Joseph F. Ammirati,Juan Francisco Araya,John S. Ascher,Tracy Lynn Audisio,Valter M. Azevedo-Santos,Nicolas Bailly,William J. Baker,Michael Balke,Maxwell V. L. Barclay,Russell L. Barrett,Russell L. Barrett,Ricardo C. Benine,James R. M. Bickerstaff,Patrice Bouchard,Roger Bour,Thierry Bourgoin,Christopher B. Boyko,Christopher B. Boyko,Abraham S.H. Breure,Abraham S.H. Breure,James W. Byng,David Campbell,Luis M. P. Ceríaco,István Cernák,Pierfilippo Cerretti,Chih-Han Chang,Chih-Han Chang,Soowon Cho,Joshua M. Copus,Mark J. Costello,András Cseh,Csaba Csuzdi,Alastair Culham,Guillermo D’Elía,Cédric d'Udekem d'Acoz,Mikhail E. Daneliya,René W. R. J. Dekker,Edward C. Dickinson,Timothy A. Dickinson,Peter Paul van Dijk,Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra,Bálint Dima,Dmitry A. Dmitriev,Leni Duistermaat,John P. Dumbacher,Wolf L. Eiserhardt,Torbjørn Ekrem,Neal L. Evenhuis,Arnaud Faille,Jose Fernandez-Triana,Emile Fiesler,Mark Fishbein,Barry G. Fordham,André V. L. Freitas,Natália Rizzo Friol,Uwe Fritz,Tobias Guldberg Frøslev,Vicki A. Funk,Stephen D. Gaimari,Guilherme S. T. Garbino,André R. S. Garraffoni,József Geml,Anthony C. Gill,Alan Gray,Felipe G. Grazziotin,Penelope Greenslade,Eliécer E. Gutiérrez,Eliécer E. Gutiérrez,Mark S. Harvey,Cornelis J. Hazevoet,Kai Hui Hu He,Xiaolan He,Stephan Helfer,Kristofer M. Helgen,Anneke H. van Heteren,Francisco Hita Garcia,Norbert Holstein,Margit Kollaricsné Horváth,Peter Hovenkamp,Wei Song Hwang,Jaakko Hyvönen,Melissa B. Islam,John B. Iverson,Michael A. Ivie,Zeehan Jaafar,Morgan D. Jackson,J. Pablo Jayat,Norman F. Johnson,Hinrich Kaiser,Bente B. Klitgård,Dániel G. Knapp,Jun-ichi Kojima,Urmas Kõljalg,Jenő Kontschán,Frank-Thorsten Krell,Irmgard Krisai-Greilhuber,Sven O. Kullander,Leonardo Latella,John E. Lattke,Valeria Lencioni,Gwilym P. Lewis,Marcos Gonçalves Lhano,Nathan K. Lujan,Jolanda A. Luksenburg,Jean Mariaux,Jean Mariaux,Jader Marinho-Filho,Christopher J Marshall,Jason F. Mate,Molly M. McDonough,Ellinor Michel,Vitor F. O. Miranda,Mircea-Dan Mitroiu,Jesús Molinari,Scott Monks,Scott Monks,Abigail J. Moore,Ricardo Moratelli,Dávid Murányi,Dávid Murányi,Takafumi Nakano,Svetlana Nikolaeva,Svetlana Nikolaeva,John S. Noyes,Michael E Ohl,Nora H. Oleas,Thomas M. Orrell,Barna Páll-Gergely,Thomas Pape,Viktor Papp,Lynne R. Parenti,David J. Patterson,Igor Ya. Pavlinov,Ronald H. Pine,Péter Poczai,Jefferson Prado,Divakaran Prathapan,Richard K. Rabeler,John E. Randall,Frank E. Rheindt,Anders G. J. Rhodin,Sara Rodríguez,D. Christopher Rogers,Fabio de Oliveira Roque,Kevin C. Rowe,Luis A. Ruedas,Jorge Salazar-Bravo,Rodrigo B. Salvador,George Sangster,Carlos E. Sarmiento,Dmitry Schigel,Stefan Schmidt,Frederick W Schueler,Hendrik Segers,Neil Snow,Pedro G. B. Souza-Dias,Riaan Stals,Soili Stenroos,R. Douglas Stone,Charles F. Sturm,Pavel Štys,Pablo Teta,DC Thomas,Robert M. Timm,Brian J. Tindall,Jonathan A. Todd,Dagmar Triebel,Antonio G. Valdecasas,Alfredo Vizzini,Maria S. Vorontsova,Jurriaan M. de Vos,Philipp Wagner,Les Watling,Alan S. Weakley,F.W. Welter-Schultes,Daniel Whitmore,Nicholas Wilding,Kipling Will,Jason D. Williams,Karen L. Wilson,Judith E. Winston,Wolfgang Wüster,Douglas Yanega,David K. Yeates,Hussam Zaher,Guanyang Zhang,Zhi-Qiang Zhang,Zhi-Qiang Zhang,Hong-Zhang Zhou +193 more
TL;DR: Garnett and Christidis as mentioned in this paper argued that the lack of governance of taxonomy damages conservation efforts, harms the credibility of science, and is costly to society, and pointed out that the scientific community's failure to govern taxonomy threatens the effectiveness of global efforts to halt biodiversity loss.
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Syzygium (Myrtaceae): Monographing a taxonomic giant via 22 coordinated regional revisions
Berhaman Ahmad,Cláudia Baider,Benedetta Bernardini,Edward Biffin,Fabian Brambach,David F. R. P. Burslem,James W. Byng,Maarten J. M. Christenhusz,F. B. Vincent Florens,Eve Lucas,Avik Ray,Rajasri Ray,Erik Smets,Neil Snow,Joeri S. Strijk,Peter G. Wilson +15 more
TL;DR: The Syzygium Working Group (SYZWG) presents a meta-modelling framework for estimating the phytochemical properties of the SyzyGium and its applications in agriculture, ecology, and the environment.
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Recircumscription of Delphinium subg. Delphinium (Ranunculaceae) and implications for its biogeography
Kun-Li Xiang,Zeki Aytaç,Yang Liu,Felipe Espinosa,Felipe Espinosa,Florian Jabbour,James W. Byng,Cai-Fei Zhang,Andrey S. Erst,Andrey S. Erst,Wei Wang +10 more
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The Turkish Endemic Pseudodelphinium turcicum (Ranunculaceae): An Unusual Population of Delphinium with Peloric Flowers That Has Persisted in the Wild for 20 Years
Felipe Espinosa,Thierry Deroin,Kun-Li Xiang,Wei Wang,Myreya Pinedo Castro,James W. Byng,Zeki Aytaç,Sophie Nadot,Florian Jabbour +8 more
TL;DR: The population of P. turcicum is an unusual population of Delphinium presenting peloric flowers that has been maintained in the wild for at least two decades and is concluded that the species belongs in the group of Mediterranean species in Delph inium subg.