2023-06-01 17:17:20
European public research funds less and less the precise and detailed description of the millions of little-known animals, plants and micro-organisms that inhabit the oceans.
Like the expeditions launched by Tara Océan, the results of which were published on 1is June, those of National Geographic in connection with the oceanographer Enric Sala who left last week, or the Ocean Census project launched at the end of April and carried by the Nippon Foundation and the British institute of marine sciences Nekton, many private initiatives contribute to describe underwater species. Nevertheless, underwater life remains largely unknown and its inventory would be less and less funded in Europe. Some scientists like Ferdinando Boero, jellyfish expert and researcher at the Anton Dohrn zoological station in Naples, even believe that there are no more big ambitious taxonomy projects in the world and that the money is directed rather towards mathematics. , computer science and genomics to study the genes found in the ocean, at the expense of taxonomy, a branch of natural science that aims to describe and classify species.
“Taxinomist positions…
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