Are you interested in creating a database of all known protists, or of =
all European marine protists? I am involved in 2 database projects =
which are indexing all species, and I'm collecting names of protist =
taxonomists who might be interested in being involved.
Project 1: Register of Marine Species. A concerted Action project =
finded under the European Union MAST research programme. I am =
co-ordinating protist lists together with David Montagnes.
Project 2: Species 2000: indexing the world's known species. See =
http://www.sp2000.org. A project endorsed by IUBS, IUMS, CODATA, CBD-CHM =
and the OECD's Megascience Forum GBIF. A virtual catalogue of all known =
species created by accessing an array of taxonomic databases. Each =
database has a global coverage of species within a taxon e.g. fish, =
legumes, mammals, and is validated by an international team of =
taxonomists for that group. We don't want the protists to be left out!
The protist databases created for Project 1 will be used as a basis for =
global databases in the second project. Therefore I am particularly =
keen to hear from people who have worked on marine protists in Europe =
(or have access to the literature for a particular group). This project =
requires only a small amount of information for each species, so the =
time involved need not be great.
Please contact me if you are interested in either project, and I will =
send you more information. It would be helpful if you indicate which =
taxa you would like to help with.
Please excuse the cross-posting if you are a member of algae-L.
Best wishes,
Sue Brandt (previously known as Sue Tong!)
S.M.Brandt at reading.ac.uk
Species 2000 Secretariat, The University of Reading, UK
