Topic: Taxonomic anarchy
This is a continuation of a thread started in March this year on NBN Atlas Scotland which I have now moved because there appears to be no progress at all on sorting out the confusing and misleading search results.
My latest example is as follows, how can you expect the general public to use the Atlas when presented with the following!
If you search for Cladonia chlorophaea the following appears:
Cladonia chlorophaea (Florke ex Sommerf.) Spreng. (accepted name Cladonia chlorophaea)
Cladonia chlorophaea (accepted name Cladonia chlorophaea)
Cladonia chlorophaea (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Spreng. Occurences 31
Cladonia chlorophaea (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Spreng. Occurences 86
Cladonia chlorophaea agg. (accepted name Cladonia) (this gives 50,111 records of all Cladonia species)
Cladonia chlorophaea Occurences 2008
Cladonia chlorophaea Occurences 685
If you search for Cladonia chlorophaea agg the following appears:
Cladonia chlorophaea agg. (accepted name Cladonia) (this gives 50,111 records of all Cladonia species)
Cladonia chlorophaea (Florke ex Sommerf.) Spreng. (accepted name Cladonia chlorophaea)
Cladonia chlorophaea (accepted name Cladonia chlorophaea)
Cladonia chlorophaea (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Spreng.Occurences 12
Cladonia chlorophaea (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Spreng. Occurences 31
Cladonia chlorophaea (Flörke ex Sommerf.) Spreng. Occurences 86
Surely, I'm not the only one get hot under the collar about the lack of progress on this issue?