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Lead by Nick Turland (Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, Berlin) & Dr Sandra Knapp (Natural History Museum, London)
Audience: Anyone involved in taxonomy of algae, fungi or plants (including fossils) who wants to learn more about nomenclature and/or learn about what is new in the 2018 Shenzhen Code. Students and early-career taxonomists may find the course particularly useful. Maximum of 60 participants.
About the workshop: Knowledge of the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants (DOI https://doi.org/10.12705/Code.2018) is important for those wanting to name new species or taxa at higher ranks, but it also provides the rules for navigating the sometimes difficult to intrepret naming of the past 266 years. This two day course will cover the main principles and rules of the 2018 Shenzhen Code.
Topics include how to publish a new name, how types fix the application of names, how to find the correct name for a taxon, conservation and rejection, and special rules for fungi, algae and fossils. We will also introduce and discuss the changes that were made to the Code in the IBC in Shenzhen, China in 2017, and that are now important parts of the new rules.
The course will have morning and afternoon sessions both days (2 lectures each session). The lectures and course notes will be in English; lectures will be interactive with examples and plenty of time for questions. Participants are encouraged to bring their own nomenclatural problems to the course, where we can discuss them as a group and perhaps solve them. The course is sponsored by the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) who support and facilitate the nomenclature of algae, fungi and plants between International Botanical and Mycological Congresses (IBC, IMC).
Participants should bring to the course an internet-enabled device to access the Code (or the print version), their own nomenclatural problems and enthusiasm for problem solving. We will provide pdf copies of key documents in case of internet failure.
Workshop Schedule:
Day 1 (Monday 6 July 2020)
AM
1. Introduction to the Codes of Nomenclature: Sandy Knapp
2. Publishing: Sandy Knapp
3. How to publish a new name: Valid publication:Nick Turland
PM
4. Typification or How to designate a type: Sandy Knapp
5. Author citation: Nick Turland
6. Spelling or Orthography: Nick Turland
Day 2 (Tuesday 7 July 2020)
AM
7. Correct names and how to find them!: Sandy Knapp
8. Names of algae, fungi, fossils, and hybrids, and of groups not covered by the Code: Nick Turland
PM
9. Conservation, rejection, suppressed works, and binding decisions: Nick Turland
10. How the Code for algae, fungi and plants changes: Sandy Knapp
About the Presenters
Nicholas Turland is the Rapporteur-général for the Nomenclature Section of the International Botanical Congress. He served in this capacity in Shenzhen in 2017 and was elected to do so again in Rio de Janeiro in 2023; he served as Vice-rapporteur in Vienna in 2005 and Melbourne in 2011. Nick is the primary editor for the Code and heads the Editorial Committee. He is Head of Publications at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum in Berlin (Germany) and has written books on the flora of Crete.
Sandra Knapp was the President of the Nomenclature Section in both Melbourne in 2011 and Shenzhen in 2017; she has also served on the Editorial Committee for the last two Codes. She is a senior research botanist in the Department of Life Sciences at the Natural History Museum in London (UK) and specialises in the taxonomy and systematics of the Solanaceae.
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