Power of Position Classification and the Biodiversity Sciences

• Main Author: Montoya, Robert D. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Bibliographic & subject control; Scientific nomenclature & classification; Bibliographic and subject control; Science: general issues
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

How biodiversity classification, with its ranking of species, has social and political implications as well as implications for the field of information studies. The idea that species live in nature as pure and clear-cut named individuals is a fiction, as scientists well know. According to Robert D....