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ArticleBioscience2026

Measuring the quality of species list governance.

Stephen T Garnett, Olaf Bánki, Saroj Kanta Barik, Alex J Berryman, Patrice Bouchard, John Buckeridge, Les Christidis, María Marta Cigliano, Stijn Conix, Haylee Crawford-Weaver and 17 more

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Article in Bioscience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Evaluating the use of taxonomy in the IUCN Red List.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

27 authors.

Stephen T GarnettResearch Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0724-7060
Olaf BánkiCatalogue of Life, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6197-9951
Saroj Kanta BarikDepartment of Botany, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1795-9539
Alex J BerrymanBirdLife International, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1273-7184
Patrice BouchardCanadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7443-4547
John BuckeridgeEarth and Oceanic Systems Group, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6510-5629
Les ChristidisSouthern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3345-6034
María Marta CiglianoMuseo de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8840-2121
Stijn ConixInstitut Supérieur de Philosophie, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1487-0213
Haylee Crawford-WeaverDepartment of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8532-0665
Peter Paul van DijkRe:wild, Austin, Texas, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7283-7000
Neil L EvenhuisDepartment of Natural Sciences, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1314-755X
Craig Hilton-TaylorInternational Union for Conservation of Nature Red List Unit, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1163-1425
Donald HobernCatalogue of Life, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6492-4016
Claire JohnstonResearch Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2067-8851
Ronell R KlopperFoundational Biodiversity Sciences Division of the South African National Biodiversity Institute and with the HGWJ Schweickerdt Herbarium, Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0948-5038
Andreas KrohNatural History Museum Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8566-8848
Marianne Le RouxFoundational Biodiversity Sciences Division of the South African National Biodiversity Institute Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9244-3025
Thomas PapeNatural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6609-0609
Richard L PyleBishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0768-1286
Lauren RazInstituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3152-4726
Philip ThomasEdinburgh Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1143-5889
Scott ThomsonResearch Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1279-2722
Leen VandepitteFlanders Marine Institute, Oostende, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8160-7941
Nina WambijiMpala Research Centre, Laikipia, Kenya.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7775-5300
Frank E ZachosResearch Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0133-6265
Aaron M LienResearch Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5131-688X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Taxonomic lists are important tools for efficient communication about biodiversity. The processes by which they are created and maintained need to be robust, scientifically sound, and transparent. Articulating and scoring a set of governance quality indicators provides a way to assess the relative strengths of list management, gives list users a means to assess the quality of this process, augments the information available to list aggregators, and allows patterns to be measured over time and among forms of life. Based on published principles, we created 12 governance quality indicators which we tested on 16 lists spanning a range of taxonomic groups. Independence of taxonomy from nomenclature scored most strongly, but scores for local and regional involvement were lower. The governance quality indicators may eventually provide a rubric for assessing best practice species list governance but now need a period of further testing, review, and refinement before they are institutionalized.

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