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Potential conservation benefits and problems associated with bioprospecting in the marine environment

By Kirsten Benkendorff

Book: A Zoological Revolution: Using native fauna to assist in its own survival

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2002

10.7882/FS.2002.007

EISBN: 978-0-9586085-3-4

... Chemical prospecting for pharmaceuticals in natural organisms (bioprospecting) has been both championed as a tool for conservation and criticised for not being environmentally sustainable. However, there has been little attempt to address the ways that bioprospecting could contribute...

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Journal Articles

The Taxonomic Stability Imperative

Brian Heterick, Jonathan Majer

Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 627–632.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.031

Published: 01 December 2018

..., the need to conserve rapidly shrinking natural habitats, the issue of bioprospecting and with all the other influences that require rapid assessments of biodiversity. Indeed, replacing the painstaking process of identification with easy recognition of rafts of species through clusters based on divergence...