Descriptive taxonomy :the foundation of biodiversity research / edited by Mark F. Watson, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Chris H. C. Lyal, Natural History Museum, London, Colin A. Pendry, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.

Introduction / M.F. Watson, C.H.C. Lyal and C.A. Pendry -- Part I. The widening audience. Floras yesterday, today and tomorrow / A.G. Miller, M. Hall, M.F. Watson, S.G. Knees, C.A. Pendry and M.R. Pullan ; Current uses and future perspectives for conservation biology / B. Collen ; The present and future value of floras for functional ecologists / J. Dick, R. Smith and R. Wadsworth ; A publisher's perspective : making biodiversity information available and relevant to a wide audience / J.B. Connor -- Part II. The products of descriptive taxonomy. Lessons learned from two projects, the Fauna Europaea and the Checklist delle specie della fauna italiana / A. Minelli ; Flora Europaea and Euro+Med / S.L. Jury ; Increasing the utility of the regional African floras / D.W. Kirkup, P. Malcolm and A. Paton ; Cybertruffle : an online resource for mycology / D.W. Minter ; Zooplankton identification manual for North European seas (ZIMNES) / L.C. Hastie, J. Rasmussen, M.V. Angel, G.A. Boxshall, S.J. Chambers, D.V.P. Conway, S. Fielding, A. Ingvarsdottir, A.W.G. John, S.J. Hay, S.P. Milligan, A.L. Mulford, G.J. Pierce, M. Shaw and M. Wootton -- Part III. Outputs and impact : field guides and applications. A field guide to the dragonflies and damselflies of Britain and Ireland / S.J. Brooks ; Sangha trees : an identification and training guide to the trees of the northern Republic of Congo / A.H. Wortley and D.J. Harris ; Millennium Seed Bank collector guides / D. Hopkins ; Training in tropical plant identification / D.J. Harris, S. Bridgewater and J.-M. Moutsambotâe ; Field identification of vectors and pathogens of military significance / A.G. Gutierrez -- Part IV. The influence of technology on data gathering in the field. The changing role of collections and field research / S. Knapp ; Field methods for inventorying insects / C.L. Hèauser and K. Riede ; From seabed to World Wide Web : an overview of marine zoological sampling, data processing and potential production of digital marine faunas / A.L. Allcock ; Advancements in electronic data capture for botanical field research in temperate regions / M.F. Watson, A.G. Miller, M.R. Pullan, C.A. Pendry and S.G. Knees -- Part V. New technologies : their current use and future potential. Extending floras and faunas to include users' views / A.L. Weitzman and C.H.C. Lyal ; Taxa, taxon names and globally unique identifiers in perspective / R. Hyam ; E-publishing descriptive taxonomy : the convergence of taxonomic journals and databases / V.S. Smith ; DNA barcoding in floral and faunal research / S.E. Miller.